Re: Will Owen's Dream Car

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Subject: Re: Will Owen's Dream Car
From: Joe Elliott <jee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 18:02:53 -0400
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At 8:14 PM +0000 6/12/03, alfa-digest wrote:

I would
have placed the clutch at the engine-end of the drive-line and avoided
the whole mess.

Yikes! Can you imagine how fast 2nd gear synchros would fail if the entire driveshaft were added to the rotating mass of the input shaft?

IMHO, the torque tube is a nice solution, but the clutch very definitely belongs at the front of the gearbox, not the back of the engine.

Joe Elliott
'82 GTV-6
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