MonkeyHunter
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| posted on 27/2/04 at 12:41 PM |
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New member, suggestions sought...
Hi everyone,
This is my first post, and i have a couple of questions...
I am planning to build a Mid engined roadster, using a Honda 1.6 VTEC, engine. I have most of the details sorted out (in my head at least). However, i
cant for the life of me work out a good way to connect the gear stick up; as the shift pin, will be sticking out towards the back of the car. Any
thoughts on this would be much appreciated.
Secondly, I live in Bristol, does anyone know a good place to get the material i need for my chassis?
Cheers,
Scott.
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Kitlooney1000
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 posted on 27/2/04 at 01:26 PM |
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you could use cables to get round the back
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ned
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| posted on 27/2/04 at 01:34 PM |
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a bellcrank and rod type arrangement? don't know the design you have inmind or the layout of the engine/gearbox & restraints etc.
are you thinking of having the gearlever on the left a la road car or right a la single seater/prototype racer?
Ned.
beware, I've got yellow skin
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Alan B
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| posted on 27/2/04 at 01:36 PM |
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Yes, cables make it easy...check out mine and Steve Graber's site (linked from my links page)...both based on MR2 also check KB's Kimini
which is Honda based.....then look at a few FWD cable gear linkages at a breakers...
Should get some ideas from all that...
my site
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kb58
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| posted on 27/2/04 at 03:53 PM |
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I'm building the mid-engine Mini using a Honda Prelude drivetrain.
I used cables end to end, using a heavily modified Honda shift mechanism to get the "up/down/left/right" correct. I recently saw a kit
car that uses a combination of cables and rods. They used a unmodified shifter with rods back to just ahead of the engine where they connected to
cables. Here, they used a bellcrank to mechanically correct it's travel direction, then the cables continue on to the tranny. It's an
interesting approach... you can use a stock shifter without sinking tons of time into it like I did. The downside is increased play that the
additional pivots introduce. THAT would drive me nuts over time, knowing the free play *could* have been eliminated had I taken the time to avoid
bellcranks... so I did avoid them. Of course to be fair, it never occured to me to use rods in the first place...
The cable/bellcrank solution is used on the "Attack" kit car.
[Edited on 27/2/04 by kb58]
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JC
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| posted on 29/2/04 at 08:34 PM |
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gear linkage
Try looking at Sylvas website - some pictures there of how they do it on the Mojo.
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MonkeyHunter
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| posted on 1/3/04 at 12:09 PM |
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Cheers folks,
I can tell this is going to be one of those things that will keep me thinking for ages, and as soon as i settle on an idea, i will come accross a
new way of doing things!
Scott.
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