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Hi Tai,

Your car does sound very radical! I, like you, want my car to be as light as possible, but I want it to appear unmodified throughout. If indeed I do buy an ally block in the future, I will probably paint it blue!
I did away with my heater altogether as I do not drive the car in the winter (salty roads) and fabricated a small, light weight aluminium blower box to go in its place. I designed this box to draw air from out side through the scuttle vent. If you look under the dash, you will see a 2" OD (approx) pipe going up into the scuttle vent. On the early Pantera's this would draw air from outside. But on the later cars they left the pipe in place but put a cap on the bottom. So I simply opened it up again. This has improved the cabin ventilation quite a bit, but not enough for really hot days or Le Mans. I am going to have to think of a way to draw more air in at some point.
As for the sound of Ferrari V8's, yes it's the crankshaft configuration. Ferrari V8's run a flat plane crank. Whereas most American V8's run a duel plane crank.

Johnny