Are you implying that the 295 ft-lb of torque from the lotus v8tt isn't a lot? With the problems with the input shaft on the Delorean, the LSD would just make things worse. Where the hell were all your renault transmission nuts when I was trying to upgrade/beefify my transmission during the engine swap?? I ended up getting ZERO responses about renault upgrades. Instead of chasing around another goose, I decided to boot it for the porsche transaxle. Jim On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 20:05:03 +0100 Martin Gutkowski <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > The Delorean's gearbox is from the Renault 30. The Esprit's is a UN1, > > used in the Renault 25 and Alpine models. The differences are > slight. > > The reason the DeLorean transmission's input shafts break before > 350hp > has nothing to do with horsepower - it's the TORQUE your diesel-like > > american blocks put out. The DeLorean was engineered for effiiciency > and > as a consequence the final drive is lower than in the 25/30 and > Esprit. > This puts additional strain on the box and clearly the input shaft > is > the weakest point. If you're going to drop in an LSD, you can drop > in a > final drive crown gear from an Alpine A610 and protect your gearbox > up > to well beyond the torque put out by a 450hp GTA turbo engine. > > NOBODY I have spoken to about these gearboxes over here has ever > heard > of the problem of breaking input shafts. > > Martin ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT <http://rd.yahoo.com/M=259538.3936685.5168404.1261774/D=egroupweb/S=170512 6215:HM/A=1750876/R=0/SIG=11v1mrq3u/*http://hits.411web.com/cgi-bin/hit?pa ge=1762-1062629109228440> click here <http://us.adserver.yahoo.com/l?M=259538.3936685.5168404.1261774/D=egroupm ail/S=:HM/A=1750876/rand=229772623> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> .
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