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| Clever use of the camera timer allowed me to both take and star in this photograph of the installation of our LS1 pan assembly. Note the pictured exhaust manifolds come bolted onto the crate LS3 but aren’t the ones used in the E-Rod kit–so don’t get confused! |
Our E-Rod LS3 is now fully dressed and ready to drop into our chassis! Addressing some of the feedback in earlier stories we took it upon ourselves to put the powerplant on the scale to see what she weighed…
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| Look close and you can see our LS3 here weighs in at 486 lbs without exhaust manifolds. The shipping weight of the twin disc clutch and flywheel is 45 lbs. and the steel bellhousing weighs 25 lbs. Doing the math puts our LS3 without manifolds at 416 lbs dry. |
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| One of the exhaust manifolds and secondary piping with cats weighs 20 lbs. Multiply that times 2 and add it to the engine weight we just came up with and you get a total of 456 lbs. |
All we need now is a transmission and subframe kit which we’ll get into in the next installment coming soon! In the meantime, check out any Project V8 RX-7 articles you might have missed below:
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