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Originally Posted by sw20kosh
You guys talking about "ruining the weight" and "ruining the balance" need to do some homework.
The FD (rx7) LS swap does not upset balance or weight and truely makes that car a monster on the track.
There is a reason why they are swapping LS motors into miatas too:
http://www.flyinmiata.com/V8/
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Also worth noting is that our stock weight distribution, at 55/45 is not all that spectacular, and pretty poor, in fact, from a sports car perspective. Even a V6 Dodge Ram pickup is better balanced, at 53/47:
http://www.motortrend.com/oftheyear/...500/specs.html
With a swap, a builder has the opportunity to succeed where the engineers at Toyota failed, by getting the engine and transmission set back far enough to get the weight distribution they promised us before the car was being sold.