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Re: 13B>>>>Quattro -Reply



>My question is a more practical one.  Rotary engines are going to be lighter
>than virtually anything they replace.  I have conceptual objections to 
>restoring
>front/rear balance by just adding inert mass.  What can one do instead?
 Move
>the battery to the engine compartment?  What? Seriously, does anyone do 
>engine
>swaps for the 5k bodies?  Successfully? 

Why would you want to add weight to the front of a car that is already 
seriously out of balance? The 13B conversion would help to ruduce the 
weight dist to something more reasonable like 55/45 F/R down from the 
63/37 that it is.


Later!


Eric Fletcher S.O.C.
'87 5KCSTQIA2RSR2B
St. Louis, MO

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