<VV> Five Speed Transaxles

[Hugo Miller]

You'd have to take care ot to end up with 6 speeds in reverse and one 
forward.
You coud do that with the little British Austin Seven of the 20's and 
30's. You had to take the back axle out to change the clutch - I knew a 
guy wo re-fitted one upside down & when he went to road test it, he shot 
off backwards,much to his surprise.
In fact another friend of mine managed to fit the differential in his 
truck upside down,with the same result. I would not have thought that 
were possible, but he managed it.


On 2020-08-11 03:26, James P. Rice via VirtualVairs wrote:
> All:  Back in 1999 there was a effort to install 5-speed 
> transmissions in LM
> Corvairs.  I remember there was much talk of them at the Lake Tahoe 
> CORSA
> Convention.  IIRC, the transmission came out of a Chevy S10 or a GMC 
> Sonoma.
>
>
> Then one application broke.  On the way to the Convention.  Clark's 
> even
> offered them for what I assume was a short period of time.
>
> Some years later at a Performance Corvair Workshop, someone tried to 
> discuss
> them and the problems and the fixes "they " had developed.  The 
> speaker was
> obviously intimidated in front of this crowd, and could barely be 
> heard
> beyond the first two rows.  Seth eventually came to his aid.  What I 
> took
> from the session was they had solved the oiling issue and the 
> instillation
> was good to go.
>
> Only I have never heard anything more about it.  Can anyone up-date 
> the
> story?
>
>
> Now what is probably a silly idea.  Has anybody looked into stuffing 
> a 5 or
> 6 speed from a FWD car inside a 66-69 transmission case?  It is 
> actually
> huge for the power a Corvair makes.  I know it is unlikely for any to 
> fit
> w/o some serious modifications to shaft/bore locations.  But would it 
> not be
> really cool to shift one or two more times going down the road?
>
> Going back to the '84 Dodge Shelby Charger I once had, all the 
> non-Corvairs
> and one Sonoma pick-up we have owned had 5 or 6 speeds, except for a 
> 95(?)
> Dodge Avenger which was a 3 speed auto with overdrive.
>
> I had the 5 speed transaxle out of the Shelby Charger once and was 
> amazed
> how small it was.  It would have easily fit into a 66-69 Corvair 
> 4-speed
> box.
>
> Don't hurt yourselves by falling off your chair laughing.  VBG!!!
>
> Historically Yours,
>
> 		James Rice
>
>
>
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