That makes sense billy, but correct me if I am wrong- you guys swapped the locations of the intake and exhaust ports by swapping the head- you didnt actually change the rotational direction of the crankshaft. My question was more directed at why you would reverse crank rotation. It seems pointless to me. I do, however, understand flipping the head to lower the overall cg of the package.

I believe the reasoning behind reversing the engine was to be able to lay down the driver more. They were able to have the upper part of the driver pretty much on top of the front half of the engine assembly where all the gears are at. Again, I am just going off of what I remember when I saw one the Michigan Tech cars and they were talking about it. My memory may be off. I guess they could have left the rotation the same and reversed it in the final drive, but who knows what they were thinking.