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Date:         Fri, 3 Nov 1995 15:37:17 -0500
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From:         djenkins@foxboro.com (Drew Jenkins)
Subject:      Re: Engine Transplant Homework

Bill comments:

> Re: grab it at $1500 -- that number looked pretty good to me, too; seems > like somebody could hot up a Rabbit Pickup with it. But if you Syncro > people are going to be so nitpicky (no rework of the back deck, no re- > duced ground clearance, no elimination of the engine skid plate, heck > you prob'ly still want the exhaust to come out the back instead of the > front) you're going to be driving horizontally opposed flat fours your > whole life.

HA! Flat fours. As my grandmother used to say: "I'll fix your wagon" :-)

You know that the 3.2 Porsche six requires no modications to the deck lid or ground clearance. So there. We *do* have an option other than "horizontally opposed flat fours".

Drew Jenkins (one the "Syncro people") djenkins@foxboro.com

> B. > Wm Kennedy > kennedy@admin.njit.edu >


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