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Subject:Re: Engine Transplant Homework
Date:Fri, 3 Nov 1995 15:37:17 -0500

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
>