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Originally Posted by neurokinetik
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. |
Don't get too into the f/r weight distribution numbers. If they told the whole story, the Porsche 911 would be a terrible sports car.
In actual driving, weight transfers quite a bit. I'd have to think one f the reasons that the 911 is so good is that the rear tires actually do some braking where the rear goes very light under braking in a front-engined car.
In the case of the ram, the f/r split certainly doesn't tell the story that most of that weight is 3' or more off the surface of the road, negatively impacting just about every measure of sporty driving.
-Justin