Sitting in my amazon cart waiting for me to get the engine back together and need it is scale....I would love to know what this engine weights. I expect the eng/trans with everything I've done to weight about 800lbs, I'll be sad if its 1000 but that is certainly a possibility....but I'll get that number before the engine goes back in the car. This will help me decide what to do roll center wise whenever I decide to tear into the suspension for real.
Installed the trans is sitting 1/4" higher that stock....it was that or notch the already soft frame to clear the flywheel. The engines crank though sits 2" lower and 3" forward of the the V8s so even with the added height of 60deg vs 90 and added weight 12 v 8, I'm pretty sure new mass center is lower and f/r split similar to stock or at least to the V8 with big supercharger that came out....but what to do suspension wise has been on my mind since I first bolted the 80 or 100 lbs of blower parts onto the top or the V8 and I'm clearly still undecided.
New rear springs arrived yesterday, 8" to replace 10"
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Siting with the adjusters full up so rear as low as possible here it is
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Last time when I measured the front I was looking at the valance and getting about 4.5". last night I laid down on the floor and discovered 4.5" at the valance is about 3.25" at the frame so the front goes plenty low. Right now the frame in the back is at 4.5" with no engine. If the engine is 1000lbs with exhaust and everything and the spring 500lb/in each and nearly 1:1 motion ratio the rear will be 3.5" full low so I guess it works out as this might work at an autocross but is too low for street use.
I can rise it about 2" which would be just about stock or perhaps a touch over so these springs seem good length wise.