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Old 12-02-2009, 06:04 PM   #17 (permalink)
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The other important measurement on front-wheel-drive cars is the distance from the driven shaft of the transmission to the front wheel shaft on the engine side of the car.

If you have an 11" motor, you need to make sure you have AT LEAST 5.5" (plus a little for clearance) between those two shafts.
Good point. I've seen a couple of CRX that are advertised as shells with only the transmission. That would probably be a good starting point

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Engines are usually blocky rectangular things, but motors are round. Nobody is happy building a custom adapter plate only to see that the wheel shaft can't fit back into the transmission!
That's what I want to avoid.

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I am using a 10" Nissan forklift motor on my Electro-Metro, it is ABSOLUTELY the biggest diameter motor that will fit the transmission. I also trimmed the end of the motor to make it meet the width available under the hood.
Did you have to take out the internal fan?
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