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Originally Posted by Ryland
do some checking on the Future Truck Competition, some of the teams that have won did motors inline with the drive shaft, a team from Madison WI a few years back got 55mpg out of a Ford Explorer and the rules of of the competition give you more points for using off the shelf parts instead of custom made parts.
I wonder if there is room to do a chain drive between the motor and the drive shaft.
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There's usually a fair amount of space between the bed and drive shaft, but surely not enough to put in a 9" WarP or anything like that.
The other problem you'd face there is with suspension. You'd have to have a 2-piece driveshaft, with one piece being hung to the frame so that it didn't move with the suspension, to keep the chain from binding/skipping.
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