[Spridgets] kind of spridget related

[David Booker]

Mike... A wrecked S2000? If he does not want a fortune for it, I'd love to buy
the engine / tranny / rear axle / etc. just to keep for whatever project comes
along down the road. (There will one day be a super seven / clubman in my
garage...)


From: Mike Rambour <lists at dinospider.com>
To:
spridgets at autox.team.net 
Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2013 8:53 PM
Subject: Re:
[Spridgets] kind of spridget related


In my case it would be because I want
to continue using the same wire wheels and already spent a large sum of cash
rebuilding the brakes with beautiful 13" finned drums that are very visible
through the 18" wire wheels.  Making the drums alone was $3,200. Switching to
a front wheel drive would eliminate that, the goal is not to make a hot rod (I
sort have 2 already, not traditional hot rods but really fast), the goal is
just to get the car on the road and make it reliable enough for my wife to
drive it work a day or 2 a week and also for us to take it up Hi. 1 to
Monterey once or twice a year.

I am not against switching the rear axle to
better match the motor/gearbox combo and I have a late (1974?) MG Midget rear
axle that I could put in BUT I will ONLY do that if I can adapt my back plates
and use my brakes and wheels to that axle, the MG axle is about 3/4" wider
than the Singer one so that is not a issue.

I do have a friend with a wrecked
S2000 that I could maybe get the engine/gearbox/axle from but before I do
that, I think I would just sell the car and let someone with lots of cash
restore the original motor and make it a trailer queen.

    mike


On
06/04/2013 08:39 AM, Michael Rowe wrote:
>> I don't think he could use this
engine directly out of a wrecked Fit.
>> They are transverse/front wheel drive
> 
> I have often wondered why/if this matters.  Do they turn the same
direction? If so, and the size is reasonable, I see no special reason why we
could not just make the same kind of adaptor we do for Datsun 5-speeds.  It
makes more sense than some of the mamouth things we have seen people put in
for fun.
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