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Old 06-16-2008, 10:59 AM
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Originally Posted by COBRANIP View Post
David,
Won't the billet frame (especially with pushrod suspension) result in a higher center of gravity (relative to the tube frame)? If so any idea how much difference?
Thanks for expanding all our horizons.

John
I imagine the CG will move slightly up from a frame stand point. How much??? Not sure--probably not enough to notice any difference.

We also moved the engine back quite a bit so that will certainly help. I guess we could do the calculations as we do have everything in CAD. Also, we can get the front to rear CG when we scale the car.

David
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