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Old 01-04-2011, 12:00 PM   #26 (permalink)
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I'm not sure how light those come. With an auto tranny, it won't make as much of a difference, however, as most of the weight is in the torque converter. Keep in mind, being a long-ish stroke I6, the 4.0 has a lot of internal rotating mass, and probably doesn't have a super-heavy flywheel anyway.
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