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259, 2.800 lbs.
Sorry its not an A body guys, but it is No slouch.
No disrespect Mike, but they were built on the assembly line that I first supported when I got to the engine plant in 97....
In 98 they split the 3.5 off to a separate assembly line and added the 3.2 L based off that engine... The plant engineering supervisor for that new line was a putz and didn't know how to manage his way out of a wet paper bag, and we lost that engine to Kenosha after a couple of years - they built it better...
I used to get the weekly dyno reports for all of the engines built at our plant... All of the v6's dyno'ed about 30-40 HP less than advertised... I asked the head of Engine Design why my engines dyno'ed that much below advertised HP and his reply was, "We built
ONE that made that much HP"...
I told him that as a customer I don't care what they can build one to make, I want to know what the engine in
MY CAR puts out... And they should advertise the actual numbers that the production engines are putting out, not what a hand built prototype can do...
Not like the good old days where they advertised the 340's at 275 HP and they put out more...
