RE: the Navarro Rambler Six...

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I wonder how long a Renault Lecar or 18i based transaxle would hold up?
They are compact and never seemed to fail in stock applications. With a light weight car they may do fine. I know the Lecar axle can have the reing gear swapped to make it drive in the opposite direction. we got warned at the training cenetr back in the 80's to be careful as it actually happened to a guy and he ended up with four revers gears and one forward!
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Mark Price
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Morgantown, WV

 
---- "Widiker wrote: 
> Wonder if the recent Mustang Cobra independent might work, there are
> sure to be some in junkyards by now. If you take a look at a Cheetah
> (60's Chevy powered AC Cobra competitor) I don't think they used a
> driveshaft at all just linking the tranny to the rear end like Tom said.
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> ~J
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> From: Sandwich Maker [mailto:adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 10:11 AM
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> Subject: Re: the Navarro Rambler Six...
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> " From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
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> " (I'm thinking now that the only decent project to use that motor  
> " would be a hot rod, something 50's-ish with a track nose. I doubt I  
> " could ever afford a Hallibrand rear to make a mid-engine car like it  
> " ought to be, putting the turbo intake behind the drivers left ear :-)
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> there oughta be transaxles you could use -- porsche, for example.  not
> cheap but available and strong...
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> i have the vague feeling that some american car - corvette maybe? - also
> uses a transaxle, with a front engine.
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> and you could always just directly couple a 4sp to an irs diff.
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