everyon esays it must be front heavy, but its actually not, its actually lighter than before. the stock KA is all cast iron and the transmission weighs way tooo much. we put the V8 in there and it sits higher in the front and we were able to get the motor to sit really low. sadly i dont think the car can be lowered, the oil pan sits about 4 inchs off the ground, and the gap between the tire/fender is about 5 inchs. if we lower it at all it will scrape the oil pan all day