They're just taking you very literally thinking you meant the car looked like some type of existing Ferrari rather than realizing you simply meant it was a rare, different looking car that stood out similar to how a Ferrari does.

 

search is your friend...

 

Yeah, probably because he wrote:

 

you're not the only one bubba

 

I almost bought one back in 2002, but then it caught fire and burnt half the sellers garage down...so I didn't buy it.

 

Ah, fair enough The guy backpedaled so much that I forgot he had said that.

 

The FD is in the 2700lb range.

Why would you destroy the balance that they achieve with the rotary with a V8? I'm not talking about front/rear weight distribution, but the placement of the engine in relation to everything else. I wonder how difficult it would be to extract that sort of power in a chassis not designed for it.

 

LSx weighs about the same as the FD engine+turbo setup. Not sure what you mean by "placement of the engine in relation to everything else" -- the LSx sits pretty far back. It's not like it rests up close to the front bumper.

 

Yeah, I know that with the rotary and its turbo accessories removed, the actual weight difference is negligible. The entire point of the rotary is in its packaging. The entire engine sits behind the front axle, and it's very small and pretty low.

You cannot get dimensions like that with a V8. So while the weight in the front will be similar, that weight will be spread higher and wider than with a rotary engine. This will change the OEM balance of the car.

 

Fair enough. I wonder how much it would really affect the balance though. Front-to-rear balance is almost exclusively the only balance reported in car reviews/discussions, so is top-to-bottom weight distribution not that important or is it simply that the reviewers are omitting an otherwise valuable piece of information?

I'd also tend to think an LSx, being an OHV design, would not be nearly as top-heavy as a DOHC motor of similar size. But that's entirely conjecture on my part.