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Old 04-07-2011, 10:53 AM   #332
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Originally Posted by Dimman View Post
Also cutting weight (without gutting your car) is REALLY hard. Give me a light, stiff chassis first. Valvematic, meh... I don't know enough about it, and no one locally has any experience with it. ABS, yes. Traction control can be done independently with fuel or ignition cutting, DBW should make it easy to do a throttling Trac system too.

But light, rigid chassis should be the MOST IMPORTANT thing on everybody's list. It makes the handling people happy, the speed people happy, and even the tree hugging hippies happy.
Cutting weight is not that hard. Doing it cheaply, or elegantly (also expensive) is though.

Not disagreeing, I'm totally on your side, just saying.
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