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

[DBCooper]

Those trailing arms are late 951 and with some effort they'll bolt on to VW bugs. You're right, Dave, they require springplates. For a bug there's some weight saving, but the real advantage is being able to bolt on 951 calipers, which of course negates those weight savings. That and to tell people you have "real" Porsche suspension under your bug, but neither of those things is any real advantage for a 914. The geometry of those arms is ALL wrong for a 914, so they won't fit unless you intend to cut them apart and re-weld them in the correct length and orientation and some kind of trailing arm to replace the springplates. They're so different that that will be major major surgery. Definitely won't gain enough in weight reduction or anything else to make that amount of work worthwhile.

You've been suggesting one wildly impractical idea after another. Could I suggest that you'd really benefit from re-ordering your priorities and first understanding these cars, what they are, how they work, their strengths, weaknesses and limitations, before you start full scale re-designs of major components? Look, everybody has an occasional wild idea they want to run in front of others, and that's fine, what we're here for. But not EVERY idea. You need to know at least enough to do preliminary determinations of viability yourself. Just a friendly suggestion.