Ford 9" Transaxle, the lack of Options

[veekry9]

Hello World.
I posted 1st as a reply to Marcus C6.
How difficult would it be to
fabricate a transaxle that can carry the Ford 9"
ring + pinion?I have viewed Currie's site and see no
mention anywhere online of such a contraption.
A ZF from a Pantera approaches the torque capacity,
the original GT40's box was a Hewland race piece.
(Edit#2:on research,a Colotti tx was used on the 289
mk1's,still in business.)
http://www.colotti.com/

(Edit:Later a KarKraft tx was used,perhaps some
production parts)
Are there any foundrymen on the 914W site?
And of course the latemodel Porsche TX's are works of art.
Could there possibly be a demand for such a high load TX?
vic

[Dave_Darling]

You need a bunch more parts to use the 944 trailing arms. It looks like they use spring plates or some other extra arms for lateral support. That one joint isn't going to provide any kind of resistance to lateral movement; the 914 semi-trailing arm has a wide base for the mounts to the chassis of the car. So you'll be adding extra parts, and fabricating, and so on and so on.

And by that time, why not ditch the whole suspension and do something like make a custom multi-link setup or graft on a Lotus suspension like Britain did?

--DD