Re: [AMC-List] 1. Re: AMC Hot Rod (Sandwich Maker)

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Don Johnson wrote:

> I don't want to rain on anyone's parade BUT,,,, by the time you;
> 1. modify the engine to turn backwards, with the problems with oil pumps, distributors, starters oil seals etc, etc
> 2. Try to get an axle to last more than 500 miles while running it up side down.
> 3. Make a transmission that is meant to turn one way, turn the opposite direction.
> Maybe the ZF transaxle is still the cheapest way to go.

Yeah yeah, parades occasionally get rain :-) Can't dismiss
ideas you don't invite in for dinner though! Your point is not
lost however.

1 seems totally doable; 2 I would never consider; 3 seems not
a problem.  But pointless complexity is well pointless..

Plain old front motor, rear drive rod is probably the simple
way to go for a simple rod. 

> Sorry, but I've tinkered with engine swaps, trans swaps and diff swaps all my life. Few of them worked as well as my imagination.

But lots of people build hot rods; sa far as matchin up odd
parts goes, it's a lot easier than fitting "wrong" parts into
a factory car.

> If you're sold on midengine, get the engine and transaxle from
> a front wheel drive car you like and mount it behind the driver.

Part of me wants to make a hot rod, or possibly just a rat rod
out of my parts car (I'm gonna chop'n'scrap it anyways); this
would bne more traditional. Another part of me wants to build a
car around my Navarro-built turbo six; this really wants to be
rear engined due to the huge-a** 5" exhaust pipe at head level.

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