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Location: northern germany | Shedding weight is THE best way to get improved performance, however in case of the A466, that weights a ton, it happens to be in the close to perfect location for the center of gravity in a car.
At least it moves some weight to the rear. Moving weight from the front to the rear makes a giant improvement in handling. If you relocate the battery to the right rear of the trunk, for instance, makes your car handle and go around turns like a completely different car.
So I do not think that an aluminum A466 is worth the effort.
I recall a road test of a post 61 Mopar in an old magazine that said the older cars handled better. Certainly suspension geometry wasn't the reason for this.
Fact is, the 57-61s with CI Flites had almost a weight distribution of 50/50. Running a BB that can be easily upgraded with aluminum parts (along other mods,
battery in trunk, etc) you can easily bring it to 50/50. I'd like to see aluminum BB-heads with heat crossover!
Edited by 1960fury 2019-05-02 7:43 AM
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