Never before has so little power been made from so much displacement! (Page 49 of 57)

as much as i'd like to say it's going to be indestructable, i doubt it will make the whole weekend. something stupid will break. hopefully it's fixable.

that's a good point. does anyone have a machine shop near the track that i can use in an emergency? it may pay off to know ahead of time who to call

I'm used to old-school everything manual equipement so i don't need anything fancy.

Yes but think how fast you can go backwards.

Time to convert to FWD with rear steer.

well, since i don't get to be the first one i guess i'll have to fix it

i may as well show today's progress. some will have to be scrapped, but some is usefull.

i made the world's shortest driveshaft:

i think i'm going to redo the lower flange and just weld it on the goldwing flange. it's too short to get bolts on as it is.

then i made the bracket to hold the 3000gt transfer case on:

it fits using the stock motor mount locations:

no reason in particular but it needs to be strong and those were pre-existing. why not.

that's when it hit me. as i was installing the 3000GT box i figured out that this won't work because it's backwards.

so i think the plan is pretty simple at this point. I'll just change the mount and mount the 3000gt box upside down. then poke a new shaft through the bottom of it and everything will be fixed.  so i guess it's only about a day's worth of work to fix.

it's a bit depressing though since i thought i was finally done with all the custom fabrication.

"Oh. The whole driveline spins the wrong way. I'll just <do something incomprehensible>"

Why isn't there a film crew involved in this?

What, haven't you seen The Deadliest Catch?

They'd gloss over the family bit in the first 45 seconds of the episode and get on with the manliiness.

so where were you guys? why did nobody else catch this?

I always get it confused, leftie loosie righitie forward?

thanks for looking up the diff flip thing. that would be easy if it worked, the trans is very easy to disassemble if you remember from about 20 pages back.

turning the whole motor assy around would be possible, but it would take longer than the other solution i'm working on. plus there may be issues with driving the trans at full power in reverse. sometimes there are just brass thrust bearings to handle those loads and they heat up over continuous use.

i have allows drawn all over the drivetrain. this is something i made sure i got right over and over and over and then i messed it up. reverse the direction and multiply by three. i guess i forgot the reverse bit.

i thought about this. i thought about it quite hard and it just would not work. the cam timing would be off and the oil scavenge pump would stop working.

Sebastian was in a great mood this morning so i did get the parts i need for the fabrication tonight. my goal tonight is to at least make the box have an output on the opposite side. if i have extra time i'll work on the new mount also, but don't hold your hopes up on that one.

well, tonight went quite well. i made the 3000gt gearbox go the other way and i figured out a way to vent it:

the vent tube thingie is over the shaft on the other side and it's just a press fit where the seal on that side used to be. it should be fairly effective at keeping the oil inside the case. the stock vent was sealed by hammering a ballbearing in it. it's cheap and quick

when put in location on the car you can see that things are close but not 100% right. the driveshaft slip spline needs to be shortened by about 1/2" to get the box to sit at the right angle

problem solved!