Water Injection Thread

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In a message dated 1/6/99 8:35:01 AM Pacific Standard Time,
kenkelly at lucent.com writes:

<< Boy this thread is bouncing around.
 
 	The corvair had a transaxle, but was a rear engined pancake
 6.
 
 	The Pontiac tempest Buick Special, and Olds f85 shared
 sheet metal, but not drive train. The Buick and F85 had a
 normal transmission/rear, while the tempest had a rear
 mounted transaxle with a flexible torque tube type
 connection from the engine.
  >>
On an interesting note. there is a Lotus 7 replica possibly a Westfield that
was running in Autocross with a Yamaha Vmax in front and a VW transaxle in the
rear. Think about that for a minute. Sequential gear box running to a multiple
ratio rear end with Reverse. You could trash the whole bellhousing just like
the later Hewland's that used the VW case. Flip it to get the axles level, and
the driveshaft low. Take out the extra gears for a hi-lo quickchange type
effect. no problem with rotation, the ring and pinion are symmetrical. A
little welding and machining, and you could have a nice compact little unit.
Fred Harmon