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Re: Rear/Mid engine SVX
You would basically have to cut everything off aft of the front seats. A fire wall would have to be made, unibody strengthening, and then have a lot of driveline components and suspensions custom made. This would be impossible to do unless you're swimming in cash. You would at least need sponsoring to fund the project and a little more than the basic engineering skills to design it properly. IIRC, someone tried this to a 300ZX in the UK and it cost over 40k (60K in US?).
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I'm not swimming in cash but i didn't know if it has ever been atemped by anyone who is? I got to thinking about it more last night and the imposabilitys of the whole deal were aparent. I was never concidering doing it to my daily driver but i've just had a curious wondering if anyone has seen it or hured about it on an SVX.
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I was using the term "you" generally, as in anyone/someone.
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This was discussed recently in MI
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It would be a terrible idea. Other than cost, you would loose all that makes the car go and handle. It would be very very unique, thats all.
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It's been done, on a CRX hatch though.
I'm pretty sure it was Road & Track. The car was pretty fast if I remember correctly. It was set up very "backyard garage" style. Engine RPM was matched through the tires contact with the road Dustin
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Re: Rear/Mid engine SVX
There's been a couple of 5th Gen Cutlass supremes (88-97) with twin engines. One had the stock 3.1 up front with a L67 (3.8SC-GTP motor) in back. Stock numbers combined on those engines at the crank is about 400hp and 470lb-ft torque and Ran 13.2 in the quarter mile. They cut/chopped/welded in the front of an olds toranado and all suspension components. Linked up the throttle cables to match as well as being able to cut off either of the engines to run on only one drivetrain. Not much cost involved cuz they did everything themselves.
Another one I remember but can't seem to find anymore is someone swapped in a 3800 series II up front in a 93 cutlass supreme, turboed running 12-15 lbs of boost and then swapped in the L67 in back with smaller pulley. Combined crank hp on that one was 650 and 750lb-ft torque. Don't remember if they ran it at the track but same basic process was involved. |
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Re: Rear/Mid engine SVX
Mr. Wawazat,
Who was part of the discussion?
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