Re: ZF Trans swap

["daveswingle2" <dswingle@xxxx>]

My recollection is that to use that transmission, you'd have to turn 
it around (or put the engine in between the seats!). It is designed 
for a car where the engine is toward the front (Pantera is a lot 
longer behind the seats than a DMC).

The ZF that has been put in a DMC (Brandys) is from a Porsche where 
the engine is behind the trans. 

Dave Swingle

--- In dmcnews@xxxx, "dmcjohn" <john.dore@xxxx> wrote:
> Hi lads,
> (To the guys who do engine swaps mainly!)
> I had a good look at an old DeTomaso Pantera a few days ago, and 
was 
> wondering if anyone thought the manual transmission it uses, which 
is 
> a ZF transaxel, would be a good idea if you were going to do an 
> engine conversion to a V-8? I'm sure its a lot stronger than a 
> DeLorean trans, and you can get adapters to fit it to most American 
V-
> 8 engines pretty easily.