DeTomaso Mailing List: September 97, Message #102
     



From: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams)

Subject: Re: Slushbox Panteras

Date: Wed, 03 Sep 1997 06:38:00 -0500



-> >   I wonder why he did'nt use an Oldsmobile Toronado turbo 400 trans

-> from the late 60's. Too wide ?



 The T475 rig has the torque convertor bolted to the back of the motor,

an enormous chain, the transmission snuggled up on the driver's side of

the block, and the differential down by the oil pan, with the right

halfshaft running under the motor.  The engine sits high the the

halfshafts come out ahead of the centerline of the engine.  At a SWAG,

I'd say it'd move the engine a foot back and half a foot up from where

the ZF puts it.  That's getting pretty radical.



 The Audi and Renault transaxles are arranged pretty much like the ZF;

the issues are just adaptors and linkage.  There are a few Porsche

transaxles that would work, but Porsche stuff tends to be hideously

expensive.



====dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us========================DoD#978=======

  can you help me...help me get out of this place?...slow sedation...

ain't my style, ain't my pace...giving me a number...NINE, SEVEN, EIGHT

==5.0 RX7 -> Tyrannosaurus RX! == SAE '82 == Denizens of Doom M/C '92==

                 



==============================================================================