nludkin
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| posted on 22/6/08 at 11:28 AM |
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BMW hub to sierra driveshaft?
I am currently designing a mid-engined car and will need to get some wide wheels on the back that are 19" to get enough ground clearance.
However, using the sierra rear hubs I will have to shell out a fair bit for alloys that are upto the job (Ones on ebay are only ever go up to
18"  )
So, my question is, does anyone know if there is a BMW rear hub that can bolt straight onto a sierra driveshaft? Then I could buy some BMW hubs,
design around them and then have access to all the lovely cheap 18" 255 on the bay of e.
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chrism
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| posted on 22/6/08 at 11:35 AM |
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You could probably get some custom driveshafts made that have the correct splines on each end to connect to the sierra and bmw parts.
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indykid
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| posted on 22/6/08 at 12:12 PM |
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why do you need such stupidly big wheels to get enough ground clearance in something you're designing from scratch?
i'd look at the design of the suspension again before i started looking at new hubs and massive wheels.
tom
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nludkin
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| posted on 22/6/08 at 03:58 PM |
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I have decided to use a rover v8 bolted to an inverted renault un1. This gives a ground clearance of, well, not a great deal. 18" wheels with a
profile of 255/40 would give the perfect ground clearance for the current design. Being that size of wheel it would probably be a 8.5J and could hold
larger tread should I drop a more powerful rover lump in the future.
I could of course chop the sump and seriously butcher the current bellhousing, but I thought planning for larger rear wheels wouldn't
necessarily be a bad plan?
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Fred W B
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| posted on 22/6/08 at 05:52 PM |
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The drive shafts don't have to be horizontial you know?
I can't understand why the transaxle chosen would constrain the ground clearnance?
Cheers
Fred W B
You can do it quickly. You can do it cheap. You can do it right. – Pick any two.
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