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From: Rocky Entriken <RENTRIKEN/0003006623@mcimail.com>
>It looks to me like that distinction is in things like the BMW listing
>I made reference to, or to Colts being listed on three different lines,
etc.
>But in the Integra case, that different-line distinction is lacking. As if,
>it is not really so much as case of updating/backdating as it is the car
was
>just never changed over those four years so it is the same car
(essentially).
>Therefore, it would not matter if you dropped an '88 engine into what was
an
>'87 chassis.
It's that "essentially" that causes the problem. In this case, there *are*
some subtle differences between the '86-'87 and '88-'89 cars -- the
compression ratio is slightly higher, so the engine has a few more
horsepower. The steering is also a shade faster, and the later cars are
about an inch wider (although the track was unchanged).
>Actually, that replacement may have been manufactured in 1996 to the
original
>specs "for an '86-'89 model car" -- therefore is the replacement for all
four
>years of that model. You buy a dead-stock replacement engine, you don't
know
>what year it was manufactured, only that it is the designated replacement
for
>your year/model of car.
Now there's an interesting question -- if you bought a factory-specified
replacement engine for an '86 -- but Honda spec'd them all based on the
latter two years, what then? Something for the rules lawyers to chew on --
not a question likely to come up at a regional event.
Jamie
'92 Prelude Si
Speed Demon Racing
http://www.mindspring.com/~jsculerati/sdr
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