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swapping engines someday, Whats the weight difference |
Jetsetsurfshop |
Sep 4 2018, 07:08 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 814 Joined: 7-April 11 From: Marco Island Florida Member No.: 12,907 Region Association: South East States |
Hey race fans,
Sometime in the future I plan on running a 2.7 six over my four banger. Anyone have any idea about where my weight will be after the -6? I'm I looking at 50lbs? 100lbs? More?? I could drop some weight from the car still. Want to get that HP to weight just right!! Theres a large group in NASA (ST4) I think I could fit into perfectly If I get the math correct. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beer.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif) |
Justinp71 |
Sep 4 2018, 11:07 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,583 Joined: 11-October 04 From: Sacramento, CA Member No.: 2,922 Region Association: None |
I'm not a super hard core racer, but the back end of my car has never felt heavy with the mag 2.7 or the aluminum 3.2. It feels pretty well balanced around the turns. Oh... the power is awesome!
I have gotten loose on the track and the car kind of evenly pushes, I think I am a little lucky that my setup happened to be balanced well enough from the beginning. Make sure you get 225's+ on the rear, that helped a lot. To answer your question directly I have never corner balanced my car but with a 2.7L I weighed in at about 2200lbs total. |
Jetsetsurfshop |
Sep 5 2018, 04:32 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 814 Joined: 7-April 11 From: Marco Island Florida Member No.: 12,907 Region Association: South East States |
I'm not a super hard core racer, but the back end of my car has never felt heavy with the mag 2.7 or the aluminum 3.2. It feels pretty well balanced around the turns. Oh... the power is awesome! I have gotten loose on the track and the car kind of evenly pushes, I think I am a little lucky that my setup happened to be balanced well enough from the beginning. Make sure you get 225's+ on the rear, that helped a lot. To answer your question directly I have never corner balanced my car but with a 2.7L I weighed in at about 2200lbs total. Sounds like a fun car. I always wondered how someone can not be a hardcore racer? Once I went to the track I've been on that slipper slope ever since! Its a real problem!!! Are you 2200lbs with driver? I can work with that math but not sure if I can loose all that weight. 2200lbs at an average 196HP is ST4. My cars current weight is 2251lbs with driver, 1/4 of gas and cool shirt cooler full. The class i'm in now is ST5. 2291lbs at an average 157HP. (Had to add 40lbs of ballast) So knowing the weight difference between the a -4 and -6 setup will tell me how much HP i need to get. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif) |
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