will you be swapping the rear with IRS? if so i could see it really being great on the track, find yourself a base model mid 80's firebird, some of them weigh under 3000lbs with a v8 in them, my 86 i had, with a 305 and a 5spd, weighed 3050! with no weight reductions, throw in that motor your talking about and it would be under 3000 for sure. it would be cool to see.
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Originally Posted by BlueLightningLS
Partially to be different, partially because I really believe this idea has some merit, partially because a nice smooth high-revving turbo four is the sort of engine that really gets me going, and finally because I like the look of the 3rd gen Firebird. My research has found that an LNF crate motor is of course an order of magnitude more expensive than a junkyard small block, and about equivalent to an LS1 crate motor. The weight of an LNF is about 355lbs, and the iron block V8 is about 500lbs turn-key (from the GM Performance Parts catalog). Plus the LNF appears to be shorter than a small block V8 so it should shift the weight to a more even level. Has anyone corner weighted a 3rd gen before?
I know it won't be the fastest, which I don't mind since drag racing bores me anyways. I do think the lighter weight and shorter motor length will benefit me in this though:
http://www.nasaproracing.com/rules/ccr.pdf
That is, road racing. I am trying to glean from the rules if such a creation would even be allowed.
However, this is a long way off. I promised my wife to give up the idea of a project car temporarily since I was buying a new Camaro. The project car is on hold until we get my wife's Honda paid off next year, and even when it's paid off my wife wants to do some redecorating around the house first (nothing huge, just tacky wallpaper removal and repainting). So some poor 3rd gen Firebird somewhere is safe from Dr Frankenstein here at least for a year. |