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Re: engine-trans swap on 72 95 Posted by Justin VanAbrahams [Email]  (#32) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from Justin VanAbrahams) on Wed, 13 Dec 2000 19:55:13
In Reply to: Re: engine-trans swap on 72 95, larry levine, Wed, 13 Dec 2000 10:14:51 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
The guy is Jack Ashcraft, formerly of Drakenparts. Or maybe it's the other way around. He actually had one adapter, which he obtained as part of a deal for cars & parts... I have that adapter in my garage, and am guarding it with my life for my Sonett project.
You've got the exact right idea - Mazda rotary, Subaru FWD 5-speed, "adapted" halfshafts. I was told the original project was with a 12A (and Jack wouldn't let me leave his place with the 12A that came with the parts deal!) but my plan is to use a 13B, since they're more reliable, more powerful, and just a couple cm larger. I don't know yet, actually, whether you need an "A" (carb) or "B" (injected), but the intake manifolds are of substantially different sizes and configurations - I don't know what fits. The tranny is from an '80 Subaru FWD 5-speed (a GL, DL, whatever) though I'm dying to know whether you could make an AWD Sonett using the tranny from an AWD Subaru. Get the halfshafts from the Subaru, cut 'em in half, and mate them to half a Sonett driveshaft - I've a pair of such modified ones along with the adapters I think.
My concern, too, is the brakes. I am not willing to put a 200hp 13B in the front of a Sonett without the stopping power to back it up. I don't know yet what the solution is, but there's gotta be one. Unfortunately, I've neither the time nor the money to pursue this right now, so the adapter, tranny, driveshafts, and Sonett are in storage... :)
Feel free to email me at any time - this is all the info I have, but I'm happy to correspond and discuss ideas.
-Justin
, Tue, 12 Dec 2000 02:46:47, Wed, 13 Dec 2000 19:55:13 <-- Viewing This Message, Wed, 13 Dec 2000 23:30:52, Sat, 16 Dec 2000 22:34:17
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