>do like in a ferrar 360, where u can see the engine thru the
>rear hatch glass. and aaron, why can't we try to come up with
>new different ideas? so what if it's hard? i'll bet that your
>last post was similar to what people said about turbo'ing the
>420A way back in the day. so don't post stuff that isn't on
>topic. this isn't the pits.
>
>EDIT: in case you didn't know, the ferrari 360 has 2 sets of
>glass. ope behind the seats like in a del sol or mr-2, and the
>hatch glass like in our cars. don't know what kind of
>glass/plastic it is though.


I didn't say it couldn't be done...and if you look I said something to the effect of "If you're dreaming, then cool"....I'm sure it could be done. You can do anything with enough money. I just think this is really out of the scope of reality. Everyone here gets super pissed when they read a thread title "Can I put a GST engine in my car?"....that will be 1000 times easier than this project. That's my point.


Aside from that I think if you did this you would end up with a super heavy car. There's a lot of weight in the rear end of our cars with the hatch and glass and what not. You'd have to transfer the gas tank up front, route your radiator up there to the rear, and ad a crapload of weight to the front to get it back to 50-50 weight distribution.

You would also lose a lot of your handling capabilities. From the factory we have a good bit of body stiffening in the rear. Once you cut that out for the engine/tranny then you would have a rear suspension setup that flapped around like a humming bird. So I would see that the most time would be in the suspension, not in slapping in an engine.