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Originally Posted by Blacdout96
Absolutely correct, without cast iron liners, a cylinder bridge ( like what high horsepower honda's use) and a couple other goodies, they will literally split in half from the vibrations. Also, GM produced an HD block to correct that, but by the time it came out, GM ditched the Cozy Vega program, and scrapped thousands of regular complete cozy engines sitting in warehouses, and the HD blocks are worth their weight in gold.
600 lbs. difference stock. Cozy Vega is 2700 lbs. stock, Opel is 2100 with the 1.9 Litre, and in the teens with the 1.1 Litre engine and options missing.
Power to weight ratio
DZ 302 Camaro - 0.10 hp/lbs. ( w/ 400hp and 3,765 lbs.)
Opel/Cozy engine - 0.12 hp/lbs ( w 240hp and 1,900 lbs.)
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3765 is heavy for a first gen Z. Official weight is somewhere around 3300.
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Originally Posted by unstable bob gable
I remember seeing a Cosworth Vega in a magazine years ago, and the owner had ditched the stock FI for some side draft Webers. Had all kinds of other mods, too. Pretty neat car from what I remember.
And to see a Vega now a days that hadn't rusted on the show room floor is just plain good.  |
There's a guy on Rt 22 in Lebanon who has an old Formula 5000 engine with Webers on it. Looks sweet as hell on the stand, but I'm sure it's tons of hours and dollars away from ever running again.