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joolsmi16 - 2/6/10 at 07:37 PM

Hi all, what's the easiest way to find out the diff ratio of my live axle??

May have a change of plan on my engine conversion, just bought a c20xe now thing of a bec as I have experience of bike engines.

Issue I have is that my car is about 650kg with a crossflow and type 9, so my bec will weigh around 550kg!! would this be too heavy and still to my original cec??

Thanks

Julian


Madinventions - 2/6/10 at 07:57 PM

Can you not just count the number of turns of the input shaft for 1 revolution of the output shaft?

Ed.


joolsmi16 - 2/6/10 at 08:05 PM

true that will give me a rough idea be better if I knew the different ratios of a standard the live axle..so I can gauge it better.


Tiger Super Six - 2/6/10 at 08:24 PM

There's normally a metal tag on the back that says the number I think, there was on mine.


BenB - 2/6/10 at 09:00 PM

550kg with a bike engine is fine!! Not sure it'd make that much difference though.

Bike engine is 60kg (ish?).
Is a Crossflow and type 9 really 160kg?


nick205 - 3/6/10 at 10:20 AM

Seems heavy for a crossflow engined car.

My Indy + Pinto weighed ~600kg

Have you had it weighed on a weighbridge to confirm?