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The Mendeola is a go!, it's here!! pix included now |
byndbad914 |
Sep 24 2008, 03:42 PM
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shoehorn and some butter - it fits Group: Members Posts: 1,547 Joined: 23-January 06 From: Broomfield, CO Member No.: 5,463 Region Association: None |
Been a lot of phone calls, etc and in fact I UPS'd my starter to them to verify fitment. My big issue was how in the hell I am going to mount a starter on the transaxle that doesn't hang way below the car (an inverted VW/Porsche bellhousing puts the starter at 6 o'clock on my car and means I would be dragging the solenoid on the ground).
Then they had this puppy left in stock - apparently they only made a couple of them (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cool_shades.gif) just moves the starter to the other side of what I have. sssooooo, the sequential dog geared monster transaxle just might be a go for me!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/clap56.gif) Laid under the car last night to make sure it looks like it will work, and this thing might be "money"! He is going to take some pix with my starter installed today as a final verification - if it all looks good then "it's on". My current setup... notice starter should just move to the drivers side but remain parallel to ground I'm sorta gloating I know... but I have literally talked to them for 4 yrs now on and off waiting for them to get an LSD setup that I liked, etc etc and this trans apparently is using the same LSD style as the Vipers and so forth. Don't even ask price... OMFG am I gonna pay for this one for awhile (IMG:style_emoticons/default/icon8.gif) but will look like this smiley the whole time I am driving it (notice only pulls shifter in one direction, no mo' H crap) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/MDB2.gif) And got my new Excellence last night - the same day I got the pic above - and page 161 = Going Sequential (IMG:style_emoticons/default/aktion035.gif) It's a sign from God hhahaha (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) |
byndbad914 |
Sep 25 2008, 03:55 PM
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shoehorn and some butter - it fits Group: Members Posts: 1,547 Joined: 23-January 06 From: Broomfield, CO Member No.: 5,463 Region Association: None |
monkeyboy - I did have The Baja Shop build my car and he assured me I was so overkill on the tubing I could jump it (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif) ....... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) They are brick shithouse trannies - AJ installs 15-20 per year in various sand cars and says they are very reliable. Easy to rebuild too should that be necessary.
Brant - I figured $15K if it holds 650HP as I think that is what the guy on the bird board had in his. So that is just over the 4spd LSD Mendy at this point. Break-even money if you went with a 5spd Mendy to match gear for gear. The two fastest "big bore" cars are tail draggers that run 1:41s and 1:43s so yeah, those guys are fast! Not that skinny of tires on them tho' (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) but they do haul. Andys - right on, Kennedy makes the clutches for just about anything off-road in SoCal. I think Tilton has a clutch option also, but the flywheel is certainly a Kennedy deal. Already talked to them and will go either stg 2 or 3 (will have less pedal pressure with two disks than the single disk stg 1 in the 930 box). |
brant |
Sep 25 2008, 04:06 PM
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914 Wizard Group: Members Posts: 11,645 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Colorado Member No.: 47 Region Association: Rocky Mountains |
The two fastest "big bore" cars are tail draggers that run 1:41s and 1:43s so yeah, those guys are fast! Not that skinny of tires on them tho' (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) but they do haul. ok not skinny but relatively skinny probably 295's or so they are limited in rim width to something pretty manageable I'd have to look but I'm guessing 9's maybe 10's and they run D.O.T. hoosiers but the PCA cars are even faster PCA allows their cars to tie the roll cage into the suspension points (vintage has a lot of restrictive rules, no slicks, no fuel injection, no suspension bracing) the PCA 914's with fiberglass and slicks run all of that and more I know the 2.2/6 teeners in PCA that were AJRS built were also running in the 1:41 range but with only 220-ish hp. brant |
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