Can someone explain -- transmission flipping

[Scirocco-Al" <scirocco-Al@insight.rr.com (Scirocco-Al)]

Turn the engine and tranny 180 degrees?  :)
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Pieper" <rapieper@yahoo.com>
To: "Tobias ><" <scirocco16v88@hotmail.com>; <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 7:19 PM
Subject: Re: Can someone explain -- transmission flipping


> Say wha?
> 
> If you simply want the tranny to have the output shafts rotate in the
> opposite direction (with the original engine rotation
> direction)...well...you'd have to be in reverse all the time.  And
> that's only one gear.  In other words, no way.
> 
> Power travels from the flywheel via the clutch to the mainshaft.  Then,
> through any one of the five forward gears, to the pinion shaft and then
> the diff.  Reverse gear throws an extra gear between the main and
> pinion shafts, reversing it's rotation.  
> 
> So, no way to get the tranny to drive the car the wrong way.  It'd be
> easier to develop a reverse rotating engine, IMO.
> 
> Now, back to your regularly scheduled brainstorm...
> 
> Ron
> 
> 
> --- "Tobias ><" <scirocco16v88@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Ok, so with all this egine relocation talk, could someone explain how
> > you 
> > get the transmission to perform the same duty if you flip it
> > backwards.
> > 
> > What internal parts have to be changed to get it to run in the right 
> > direction? Would this be a fairly simple (and I use the term simple
> > losely 
> > here) procedure?
> > 
> > I haven't seen a transmissions guts, but logistics would say that you
> > flip 
> > the thing at the end of the driving shaft to get a reversed rotation?
> > 
> > TIA,
> > Tobias
> > 
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