Re: Navarro Turbo Project - Cadillac XLR-V

[farna@xxxxxxx]

So there will be the same problem using it. The photo shows the torque converter on the trans (well, it has to be!), meaning there is some type of "bell housing" and flexplate on the aft end of the driveshaft. There has to be a flywheel on the engine itself, or at least something similar to a flexplate to hold the starter ring gear. There is no conventional bell connected to the back of the engine/front of trans. The transmission appears to be made like the Borg Warner models though, so maybe GM has gone to a removeable bell design? The diff appears to bolt off (of course it wouldn't be integral!), so if a separate bell design just a new output shaft and tailshaft housing would be needed to convert to standard rear wheel drive. That's likely the way it's designed, I haven't seen the six speed used in the rear drive vehicles. GM sells enough of those to warrant a completely different trans case though, and there's enough money in the 'vette to pay for a special case, so all b!
 ets are off! 

This leads to an interesting proposition though. It wouldn't be terribly difficult to take a standard 4x4 transmission, remove the transfer case, and make a simple coupler to go from the output shaft to the pinion shaft of an IRS. Wouldn't be as short as the Halibrand and other Indy type transaxles though. They have the diff between the engine and trans like the Corvair transaxle -- IIRC it has a hollow pinion shaft with output from the engine going through the center back into the trans -- I KNOW the transaxle used in the 61-63 Tempest did!

On November 16, 2005 andrew hay wrote:

> iirc this caddy is built on a 'vette chassis, so you'd find the same
> transaxle under the c5 etc.

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