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Originally Posted by Randy
This is an old-school motor: the big hole on the cam end must be for a distributor. It has individual bearing caps instead of a lower block and big looping welded manifolds that take up lots of space.
No variable cam timing. No direct injection. No smooth-but-cheap plastic intake manifold. No money-saving or space-saving anything. I can't see how this improves on the Metro motor. Offset bores, tweaked cams... anything?
If it's this much trouble for such an old motor, who knows how long it will take to get the rest of this car done.
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I bet it's just a temporary set-up to get it on the dyno.
It seems to me that type of intake manifold would be way too costly and time-consuming (not to mention big) to duplicate for production.
I'm actually surprised they got it to that point already.