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egoman · 03-09-08, 12:48 AM

Well I sat and watched as long as I could stand and now its time.
I am not the first to think of this but take your bellhousing of choice
and then bolt a Quick change rear end directly to that.A simple remachine to a input shaft and you are complete to this point.Now it gets interesting- take an adaptor plate and bolt a T5 case to the back of the housing.Now make up a housing to place the original QC gears in and send the power back to the ring and pinion.Now all of your gear problems are solved as ratios are just about unlimited. There is no shortage of high perf parts for these trans and any cast orsteel bellhousing for ANY engine you choose is available.You are also no longer bound to expensive clutch and pressure plate combos so any decent speed shop will have you up and going in no time.Other than the clutch input shaft and a few other machined parts there are no terribly hard to acquire parts here.If you look at the T5 its not that long when you get rid of the unnecessarilly long input and out put shafts.Use your imagination and you will see it come together.Any moron with basic hand tools can rebuild a T5and if you remain with a bolt on assembly for the trans it could be removed and replaced with a back up unit in less than ten minutes.Shifting could be handled with simple linkages.There are late model QC rears for sale all the time and any thing from spools to ratchets are available.
Give it some thought people as I plan to build one myself.
REMEMBER these rears handle some extremly high HP situations and if you do break a part its usuall the QC gears...... and they are cheap!!!!!
Maybe I am a idiot but these parts survive with extreme HP every day and they are readilly available and easilly serviced.
If you like my ideas tell me and if you decide to try this keep every body informed of your progress.I allready have several ideas for parts and mods so ask questions and I will try to answer them.Maybe this will become the holy grail of the transaxle game that you have been searching for........

JUST THINK ABOUT IT.

03-09-08, 12:48 AM	#29 (permalink)
egoman egoman Rookie Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: rosser manitoba Posts: 42 Rep Power: 2	Re: Transaxle design Well I sat and watched as long as I could stand and now its time. I am not the first to think of this but take your bellhousing of choice and then bolt a Quick change rear end directly to that.A simple remachine to a input shaft and you are complete to this point.Now it gets interesting- take an adaptor plate and bolt a T5 case to the back of the housing.Now make up a housing to place the original QC gears in and send the power back to the ring and pinion.Now all of your gear problems are solved as ratios are just about unlimited. There is no shortage of high perf parts for these trans and any cast orsteel bellhousing for ANY engine you choose is available.You are also no longer bound to expensive clutch and pressure plate combos so any decent speed shop will have you up and going in no time.Other than the clutch input shaft and a few other machined parts there are no terribly hard to acquire parts here.If you look at the T5 its not that long when you get rid of the unnecessarilly long input and out put shafts.Use your imagination and you will see it come together.Any moron with basic hand tools can rebuild a T5and if you remain with a bolt on assembly for the trans it could be removed and replaced with a back up unit in less than ten minutes.Shifting could be handled with simple linkages.There are late model QC rears for sale all the time and any thing from spools to ratchets are available. Give it some thought people as I plan to build one myself. REMEMBER these rears handle some extremly high HP situations and if you do break a part its usuall the QC gears...... and they are cheap!!!!! Maybe I am a idiot but these parts survive with extreme HP every day and they are readilly available and easilly serviced. If you like my ideas tell me and if you decide to try this keep every body informed of your progress.I allready have several ideas for parts and mods so ask questions and I will try to answer them.Maybe this will become the holy grail of the transaxle game that you have been searching for........ JUST THINK ABOUT IT.