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Originally Posted by ZoomZoomMX-5
I was told by a friend... [snip]
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I'd reckon they only made one RB26 powered Mustang because of the expense involved in making them. Sourcing that motor and then months of construction. Since a movie would need a handful of cars for filming, since they would break and crash and whatnot, it would be cheaper to just toss a little V8 into the copy cars, and you wouldn't be able to tell from outside, anyway. In my most recent issue of Sport Compact Car, they tested the cars from the movie (tee-hee) and they found the RB26 to be faster than the V8 copies, if only on the quarter mile. They also had to equip the copies that were used for drifting had a second e-brake caliper on the rear brakes to help turn the cars around. Doesn't sound like a glowing endorsement for the V8s, does it?