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Well,it's off to California tomorrow morning. Bought the Fortin.Pending inspection that is Sunday night.
North east LA area
4 approx 12 hour days...........................
twenty grand for a trans. Oh no not or faber.
Are you already over the turbo busa? I have been thinking about doing a mid engine v8 with a shortened c4 and a quick change 9" that has cv flanges. Been talking to my friends about machining the stuff to make it happen. I could do the whole drivetrain for less than the s4 I want to do.
I have looked at every possible configuration, and they always end up 18" longer than the transaxle which drives the wheelbase way up.The other problem I see is that the 9" has the drive 2.25" above the input shaft, putting the output flanges 10+ inches above the oil pan. It creates problems that only 38" tires fix. I have considered building a housing for a 9" to run upside down right behind the engine. Run a long input shaft past the diff to the tranny behind it, then a gear box to drop the output of the tranny down to run back under the tranny forward to the diff. Basically a transaxle that can use a semi-stock auto tranny.Dunno, I haven't seen a great standard auto tranny pulled off yet.