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In Reply to: RE: Datsun to Datsun, no? posted by b.l.zeebub on November 19, 2015 at 07:22:08:
Not to beat a dead horse on an audio forum (it is the inmate section though... :)), but most of what I've read say the all aluminum LS engines weigh as little or less than the cast iron block straight 6 Datsun motors. Many swaps done, and most state the motor is less, and that you can achieve a 50/50 weight ratio instead of the factory 52/48.
I get your point, nice old classic 240Z, pity to tear it apart. To me though it is just a car. If I had an original collectors car that I liked to drive I'd do so all the time, regardless of what that would do to the value. I buy cars to drive them. Tear apart an old 240Z and throw a great motor in it, why not.
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