Re: Weight of Modern Sports Cars
From: Doug and Terri Anderson (dntdock.net)
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:35:04 -0800 (PST)
Yehaa - weight - to give you all an idea of weight - Porsche who held a contest one time to see how their engineers would save weight in one of the early stock racers - gave out 3d place for a balsa wood ballast resistor, 2nd place for replacing the rubber side steps with vinyl and doing away with pleats in the upholstery - and 1st place - went to the team that drilled the ignition key out with progressively smaller holes.

That said - the racing 911 2.2 liter engine weighs in as much as a small block Chevy. My my.

DOUG

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