Daffy Zone…..
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Must be in Arkysaw
Tinyman
Professional
Or here in Bama
MN.Militia
Master Class
Tudoring, but only one was answered.
MN.Militia
Master Class
jumpinjoe
Hellcat
My brother and I once put a 427ci big block crosswise where the back seat is supposed to be in a Fiat 500 ... circa 1969-70. Drove it to a live axle off the flex plate with a centrifugal clutch from some unknown brand of small wheeled front loader that had burned and sent to the scrap yard. The clutch drove a long shaft between two horizontal bearing blocks (about a 2" dia shaft iirc), and that shaft had a HD drive sprocket welded to each end which carried some pretty heavy chain down to each rear axle stub. I'll say it was very difficult to drive due to the very short wheel base and with the axle setup we built it responded exactly like a live axle (think go cart). We thought we could make it work, but unless both rear tires were aired to exactly the same diameter (pressure didn't matter), and both sides of the drive chain were tightened of slack to exactly the same tightness/slack, we could never get it any further down the asphalt than a few yards. Serious wheelies were a real problem too. We were allowed one try per night at the track, but only for a few weeks by entering it as an "Outlaw" build. After that few weeks that car was banned forever. Never did get it where we could drive it, but we did win a chit load of bar bets just by saying at just the right time over a few beers that we actually had that damned thing and could "get it off the line"!