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I got pretty bogged down with clutch details on my Renault 10 I'm building , and I decided to get started on a new project. I've been designing this thing in solidworks whenever I've had downtime or can't get out to the garage to work on the Renault. I was thinking id do a modern transverse V6 at first, but I've gone a bit off the deep end since then. I bought a never-rebored 4bolt 350 SBC locally(the guy thought it was a large journal 2 bolt main 327) as well as a richmond 2.43 1st super T-10, Winters Sprint Quick change, an IDF manifold, 15x10 & 15x8 TorqThrust Ds, 295/50/15 tires for the rear, 255 fronts, and a set of trickflow heads and a cam(its their advertised 420hp top end kit)
I'll be doing a DOM tube frame and a hammerformed 3003 alu body(luckily, there isnt much bodywork to it)
I'm basing the transaxle off the Bob McKee recipe, but a richmond super t-10 instead of the borg-warner, and a winters sprint instead of a halibrand 201. This does mean i loose reverse out of the maincase(output shaft coming from the quick change to the pinion has to occupy the space of the reverse layshaft ), but I can probably get a reverse gear between the trans output and the qc(4 forward speeds AND 4 reverse
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maybe i can linkage it so it will only go in reverse if its in 1st.
But anyway, I got an old xbox kinect camera to scan my transaxle parts. Not dimensionally accurate, but damn good enough for a placeholder in the model!
Also I printed some 50mm IDF style throttle bodies as well as a mold to sand cast them in aluminum.
I also am planning on white180 deg headers. I have them within .5" of each other in the CAD at 41" primary length
Ill get into some more detailed stuff but I wanted to throw this out into the aether because Im pretty excited about it