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Originally Posted by spacemanspif
Your question is kind of confusing me. Are you wanting to turn a 4 wheel car into a 3 wheeler?
I'm thinking you are going to need the back end of a motorcycle, shaft drive might be a good idea or a sprocket on the driven axle of the trans for chain/belt drive.
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Frank is right on,
I am not looking to do either of the things you mention.
I am looking for a better way to integrate mild hybrid activity into a front wheel drive car by driving a rear wheel. The way I have seen done is to use a 5th wheel off a trailer hitch, interesting but not reliable enough for me.
The motorcycle idea is interesting but I don't really have a safe method of placement for the drivetrain forward or behind the wheel, also a motorcycle would cause the wheel to be floating, it wouldn't be stablized in terms of yaw as well as I would like.
Ah well, one guy has rebuilt a chinese hub motor into something almost usable, but he uses it off a half shaft as the bearings even when rebuilt are up to bouncing on a wheel.
If anyone can solve this problem I think we are in the golden era of conversions from junkyard parts, just don't realize it yet.
Cheers
Ryan