'09 ALMS Round One Sebring Mar.18-21

[Flyin Ryan]

Originally Posted by Lola T70

Not sure how you can say guarantee Audi sandbagged but hey ho.

Well his name is "Audi Racer" so clearly we can all tell he's unbiased.

[fjn356]

I cannot wait to see McNish when he is not sandbagging. I suspect the pavement will melt.

[chernaudi]

Originally Posted by Audi Racer

Yeah but the R8 engine was quite large. Don't know about weights or anythingbut it was somewhat bigger and messier looking than the Acura engine

The R8 engine displaced 3.6L/219CI. Looked bigger because of the turbocharger plumbing. It may be slightly heavier(I've heard that it weighted 380lbs fully equiped and mounted in the car-don't know about dry weight). The R8 was a twin turbo and had direct fuel injection, both of which mean more power and torque.

It was also only a little more than 20 inches long.

I figure that Acura was time constrained and they were also looking to the post 2010/2011 regs-all they have to do is sleeve the engine back down and put the original crank back in it to get it down to 3.4L.