[bluetoy]

darkpuppet,Mar 26 2006, 12:00 PM Wrote:

bluetoy,Mar 25 2006, 07:15 PM Wrote:Actually you are putting less weight in front of the tires than you think. The entire engine/trans ass'y in a FWD Focus is on or ahead of the tires. With a V-8 you'd be putting half the engine and all the trans/bellhousing/clutch etc behind the front wheels. A small block ford with cast iron heads only weighs about 450 lbs. put on some aluminum heads and intake and you cut 50 lbs off that easily.
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true I guess... considering how much firewall they cut out to make it fit, I'd say half the engine is in the middle of the car...
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Don't know why they're doing that. You don't have to cut any firewall. Hardly any tranny tunnel changes either. Must be going very radical.