I remember some WW2 Jeep-esque vehicle that could use all the forward gears as reverse ones at the flick of a switch or lever.
Hopefully someone else knows what I'm talking about, if it's a mechanism worth trying in a Bec?
That was an Italian invention wasn't it ?
if you have a reverse box you can do that in a BEC.
Think you're talking about an Austin Champ which had a RollsRoyce engine. Post war (just) I think. Lots of national service guys ended up on a
charge for trying to see how fast they could go backwards.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Champ
The reverse boxes available from quaife, MNR, etc, act on the output just the same and give all gears in reverse.
adrian
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Originally posted by adithorp
Think you're talking about an Austin Champ which had a RollsRoyce engine. Post war (just) I think. Lots of national service guys ended up on a charge for trying to see how fast they could go backwards.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Champ
The reverse boxes available from quaife, MNR, etc, act on the output just the same and give all gears in reverse.
adrian
A 3.14 LSD in Sierra casing with built in reverse would sell like hot cakes.
There was a car (can't remember name) with a 2-stroke engine where you just stopped the engine and restarted it running backwards by turning the
key the opposite way when you wanted to reverse. This could be done on a four-stroke with some clever variable cam trickery.
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Originally posted by Peteff
That was an Italian invention wasn't it ?
I disn't think the quaife reverse boxes are strong enough to handle full speed backwards.....
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Originally posted by matt_claydon
A 3.14 LSD in Sierra casing with built in reverse would sell like hot cakes.
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Originally posted by matt_claydon
A 3.14 LSD in Sierra casing with built in reverse would sell like hot cakes.
There was a car (can't remember name) with a 2-stroke engine where you just stopped the engine and restarted it running backwards by turning the key the opposite way when you wanted to reverse. This could be done on a four-stroke with some clever variable cam trickery.
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Originally posted by mcerd1
I disn't think the quaife reverse boxes are strong enough to handle full speed backwards.....
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Originally posted by scootz
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Originally posted by mcerd1
I disn't think the quaife reverse boxes are strong enough to handle full speed backwards.....
I thought it was a straightforward 1:1 arrangement...
) with this little disclaimer: quote:
The Reverse Gearbox is only suitable for engines up to 250bhp. Reverse gear must
only be used to manoeuvre the vehicle slowly. e.g. Parking.
the device for making 2 strokes run backwards was called a siba dynastart,
it was a starter/dynamo/reverse all in one.
it worked by retarding the ignition to a point where the engine when given a kick backwards by the starter would run quite happily backwards. some old
2 stroke bikes with the ignition timing a bit retarded were known to run backwards when kickstarted, you only found out when letting the clutch out.