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Originally Posted by UKZR1
I see the usual suspects got the car (Ultima - the car Top Gear wont let around the track)
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I thought they had, but did not allow it up on the board for some reason or another.
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The fuel rails are also backwards - someone should have spotted that - Jeff
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The rails were a bit more obvious, well with the plenum backwards that's the way you have to put the rails.
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For its compact size an LS series engine may have made more sense. If going down the modding road then it sure would save a lot of money for any gains made but its been done loads of times over in these cars. The LT5 makes it somewhat unique, looks a whole lot better and I'm sure its the best sounding Ultima on the road The guy did tell me what the car weighed but I dammed if I can find the figures from memory it was about 2/3 of the weight of the Z so certainly not slow
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No doubt the sound is phenomenal with the short exhaust pipes and rev range up to 7.5k, but when you a build a car like this, power to weight ratio is paramount, especially with almost all the weight being over the drive axle in the rear. Using a LS based motor would have shaved off about 100 lbs and also would have lowered the cars center of gravity even more.
I imagine the gearbox is a Porsche box.
Cool project.