OK, I'll work on this one a lil bit myself.
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Originally Posted by bikin' Ed
ddanz, I don't understand why you want to make the neon RWD, except that you want it to be different.
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cuz when you pull the fwd eng and tranny out what are you left with? a couple shafts whose inner ends are floating in mid air. bolting motor onto live rear axle = simple in comparison
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FWD is by nature more efficient than RWD due to rolling friction losses.
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I can't identify any reason why this would be so. In fact, in the case of my Tempos, it may be worse just for the reason that it has 4 wheel independent suspension, which I'd imagine wouldn't maintain as good alignment control as a vehicle with a live axle.
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However, if you must, I'd suggest a donor car. Cut out the front suspension and subframe and graft it into the back.
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then he still has the lack of anything to hook the cv shafts to; and now he also has to fix the steering straight ahead. and, find a home for struts if it doesn't already have them, or if they aren't compatible. this sounds like the most complicated way of all!
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My other thought on your project is to keep the FWD, and modify the trunk for installation of your generator. When it's all closed up it will look totally stock--the ultimate sleeper.
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keep the fwd how specifically? using the tranny, using only the diff part of the tranny, making a homemade or adapted diff... what?