Well... on the one hand, I don't see the point. Ruining a perfectly good Insight for more power, why, it's against everything the original Insight stands for. Bah.
On the other hand, having once dropped a '69 Hemi in a '56 Plymouth Savoy coupe, among other automotive outrages, I'm all for it. ~200 HP in a sub-ton car... Can't wait to hear the final report once the OP gets it!
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I own a 3 cylinder metro, so I can see the desire for one more. I have an i2 and at times it seems to need an extra horse or two. The metro so far without use of ac and advancing the cam timming 10 degrees has made the car way more drivable and swifter than my i2.
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I am interested and somehow turned off by the whole thing. Kinda like watchin videos of train vs car wrecks.
I guess it's like taking a classic vintage watch and gutting it for a newer, more accurate movement. An upgrade yes, but...
Or replacing an already-accurate movement with an mp3 player, since the new does not have the same function as the old.
It looks like a clean conversion, but assuming the IMA's all gone the weight distribution would be a horror, something like 70/30. Whenever a CRX gets any power upgrade it worsens an already-marginal weight distribution, and this would be much, much worse that way. I'd love to know its new corner weights.
On a dragstrip at least it would certainly perform quite well... But like the CRX, not feeding it corners would be depriving it of expected nutrition. Its diet must be balanced. :>
Or replacing an already-accurate movement with an mp3 player, since the new does not have the same function as the old.
It looks like a clean conversion, but assuming the IMA's all gone the weight distribution would be a horror, something like 70/30. Whenever a CRX gets any power upgrade it worsens an already-marginal weight distribution, and this would be much, much worse that way. I'd love to know its new corner weights.
On a dragstrip at least it would certainly perform quite well... But like the CRX, not feeding it corners would be depriving it of expected nutrition. Its diet must be balanced. :>
um what? the crx weight distribution is fine with swaps. the k20 weights less than b-series.
um what? the crx weight distribution is fine with swaps. the k20 weights less than b-series.
im sure the car is fine with this swap...
You're talking about replacing a 1.0 3 cyl. with a K20 up front, deleting the entire IPU in back, and a truly flyweight aluminum structure... The weight distribution will be very front-heavy. Great for acceleration, tricky with anything else. Clean, apparently well-done intall though. It'll be a blast to drive despite likely low-speed understeer, but will be easy to wrap around a tree at speed. Might not have much sneeze factor... That'll make it a riot to drive, but very much a hands-on machine.
I suspect we disagree on what good weight distribution means.
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Getting my K-Sight soon
