<VV> Re: UPSIDE DOWN PG

[Roger Gault]

Tom and Tim,
This is a technique for getting the engine in front of the axels for a trike
or mid-engine application.  Instead of looking at it as spinning the PG on
the input shaft, look at it as flipping the drive train over the axels to
get the engine in front and then rotating the engine around the input shaft
to get it right side up.  Everything now turns in the stock direction, but
wheels are now driving toward the engine - which is forward.  If you leave
the PG right side up and rotate the drivetrain around the vertical axis,
then the engine rotation has to be reversed to make it go forward.

Roger

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Thesuperscribe at cs.com>
To: <N2VZD at aol.com>; <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 8:49 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> Re: UPSIDE DOWN PG


> In a message dated 5/13/2005 11:34:33 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
N2VZD at aol.com
> writes:
> > will someone please explain why you would want a powerglide upside down
to
> > my
> > thick head...or is this the april edition??  it would seem to me there
are
> > way too many issues involved to make it worthwhile but then...
> > regards, tim colson
>
> Tim's right. If the PG were spun around 180 degrees to make it upside
down,
> its shaft would still turn in the same direction. So what's the point of
doing
> it?
>
> --Tom B
>
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