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Now for another of my "Tangents":
Since this Modular Ford engine has in fact been raced in the Multimatic DPs in Grand Am.....
NOTE: It's too big size-wize to put into an open-cockpit LMP....from everything I've read or been told by people who know these engines....
and you can buy a "crate motor" for $15,000....
Should a low-budget team consider the following:
1. Buy an old used GT1 class car (the way Team Elite id with their Lotus Elise)
2. Put this Ford Modular V-8 crate motor in it with whatever gearbox the Multimatic uses....or
2a. Work out someting with Multimatic to get one of their race-developed modular V-8s for a reduced cost and work out an "R&D" agreement with them to help advance the engine to benefit their DP program...
Since a closed-top car provides a larger ovarall space behind the driver to put such a large engine, and it has been done in a DP, this might be another of those "cost-effective" options to compete with an LMP program...
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