New Corvette with rear transaxle/Am I on the right digest -

[Robert Jones <jonesy@au1.ibm.com>]

For those of you without transaxle cars, this will not be of interest...

We now have learned that the new Corvette has a rear transaxle.
What I would like to know is how have they designed the
drive shaft? Do they have donuts?

If we can learn from what GM engineers have created to cater
for the large amount of torque of their V8 - good!  We may be
able to borrow ideas, redesign/retrofit our driveshafts. This is
just another variation on the "make a carbon fibre driveshaft"
thread from late last year.

I mean for goodness sakes, an item designed with a computer
in the 90s should be so much better than an item designed with
sliderules in the 70s, even if it was by a GM egg-in-ear!

To Michael Williams: where a thread has a link between Alfa Romeo
and other cars, whether they be GM or not, *do* belong in this forum.
However I draw the line when it comes to describing various GM
motors... who cares? ;-)

Robert Jones,
Sydney Australia
1979 Alfetta GTV 2000