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Originally Posted by Frank Lee
OK, I'll work on this one a lil bit myself.
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
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.
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!
keep the fwd how specifically? using the tranny, using only the diff part of the tranny, making a homemade or adapted diff... what?
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FWD is more efficient than RWD (all other things being equal) because of alignment. Front wheels will begin to pull immediately when put in gear. RWD will have to push the front end around to get it straight before it goes forward. I know that isn't a very technical reply, but I'm thinking that the info might have been on R.Q. Riley's site. If I can find it I try to post a link.