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. _______________________________________________ AMC-List mailing list AMC-List@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.amc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/amc-list or go to http://www.amc-list.com