Re: [AMC-list] Mid-Engine AMX

[Jim Blair <carnuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Like Andrew said, if you turn the Eagle diff towards the back, the rotation is correct for going forwards with a RWD motor/trans setup.


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Subject: Re: [AMC-list] Mid-Engine AMX
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" From: Ken Ames <ameskg@xxxxxxxxx>
" 
" IIRC the Toronado axle was a '425' - a front-wheel drive version of the Turbo
" 400. Eldorado probably the same.
 
yup, and definitely the same; the eldo was a reskin of the toro
platform.  and as big as these cars were, they still had 2/3 of their
weight on the front end...
 
there was a 2nd gen ca. '80 +/-, th325, in both 3sp and 4sp versions,
with lockup.  biggest engine was an olds 403.
 
" Quoting tom jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>:
" 
"> On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 16:17, Armand Eshleman <aje1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"> 
">> Oldsmobile toronado transaxle mated to a V-8 works pretty good I
">> understand....
">>
"> Yeah, but they're boat anchors. Two boat anchors! HUGE! HEAVY! And automatic
"> only I think. Apparently tough though and well done.
"> 
"> No V8's for me, so 200hp capacity would be enough. Something furrin' might
"> work better, there's not much post-war driveline innovation in the U.S. up
"> til recently (blasphemy? give me examples besides: corvair, f85, toronado,
"> eagle, ... vette is recent)
 
'65 is recent?  that's when the vette got 4-wheel vented disks; '63
for irs.  vettes also had that bizarre rochester mech fi setup, since
the late '50s.  i wonder if it inspired bosch k-jet later?
 
what did the f85 get?  it was a sister to the 'vair, skylark, and
tempest, but the poncho got the 'vair transaxle, swing axles and all.
and a slant 4 that was 1/2 a 389.  btw these were afaik gm's first
unibody.
 
there wasn't much innovation in detroit because it didn't sell.  the
vette was and is a 'halo' car, not needed to be profitable in its own
right, but every other innovation of the '50s/'60s faded away and was
gone by the mid '80s; 'conventional' cars sold as well and were more
profitable to make.  there's been innovation since then, in reaction
to regulations and foreign competition - in other words, forced.
 
"> Some friends & I talked about eagle front in the rear, but that has it's own
"> problems (eg. reversed rotation for starters).
 
what's wrong with turning the diff around?  it's just a conventional
dana 30.
 
"> Trivia for you: said friends and I could come up with no mid-engine, FRONT
"> drive cars, at all. Except the Dymaxion, and that doesn't really count.
 
there isn't much point.  and wasn't the dymaxion just a [prewar] ford
v8 chassis running backwards?  not one of fuller's better ideas...  he
was -not- an engineer.
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