Quote Originally Posted by shwah View Post
My guess is there is a beleif it makes more than 25% gains. When I ran that math for my car and found 2131 as a 'process weight'
1.25 x 105 x 17 - 50 strut/beam - 50 fwd
I wrote a letter.

It turns out there is a beleif that my car makes 30% - which processes out to 2220. It was recommended to be moved to 2270, and turned down. Not sure what else was used in the process to give the extra 50, but ces la vie.
The "strut/beam" suspension didn't get a subtractor. The A-arm cars get an adder. That same vestigial 50# accounts for a chunk of the difference between where the MkIII is and where it should be, too.

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