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MALDI · Post by **MALDI** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 9:27 am

Paul Frère in the May 2008 Road&Track on the Nissan GT-R:

Surprisingly, there is no rigid link between the front engine and the aft transaxle, the latter located forward of the rear-wheel centerline to reduce the car’s polar moment. A carbon-fiber propeller shaft takes torque to the transaxle; another prop shaft brings allotted torque forward to an open front differential. [NB: It's a 4 wheel drive car]

1) Frère clearly doesn't know Alfas which had this 25 years ago (circa 1972).

2) More to the point, how does Nissan do it? Are there guibos or universals? Is the chassis so rigid it doesn't need them?

3) Some people have made carbon fiber driveshafts for transaxle Alfas. Do they use a center guibo?

Inquiring minds want to know!

sh0rtlife · Post by **sh0rtlife** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 12:34 pm

my guess would be u-joints.....tho id love to see the belly of the beast..if nothing else to see how the drive shafts run without takeing up a crapload of floor space

wouldnt that be fun..the nissan transaxle in a gtv6

Mats · Post by **Mats** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 1:05 am

Rear transaxle and 4wd? So two propshafts then?

sh0rtlife · Post by **sh0rtlife** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 1:55 am

yeah thats why i want to see the belly of the beast...

remove the gears and output for the front shaft and use it as a RWD lol

on a quick search i found this

http://www.motiontrends.com/2007/m10/Ni ... GT-R.shtml

OOOO even better

and this...the transaxle...if im seeing and understanding it right...the clutch is on the engine

MR2 Zig · Post by **MR2 Zig** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 8:02 am

i could be easily wrong here but......that looks like a motorcycle wet clutch at the front of the transaxle in the cutaway. Multi plate looking thing.

Scott

Greg Gordon · Post by **Greg Gordon** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 8:44 am

The sad thing here is that thing is closer to a modern GTV6 than anything Alfa has built lately. (the 8C does not count due to its price).

Mats · Post by **Mats** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 9:12 am

MR2 Zig wrote:i could be easily wrong here but......that looks like a motorcycle wet clutch at the front of the transaxle in the cutaway. Multi plate looking thing.

Scott

I'm guessing that's the DSG unit, there should also be an ITM100 (on demand AWD clutch) in there somwhere to feed the power to the front wheels, unless they have moved to permanent but that sounds unlikely.

MALDI · Post by **MALDI** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 10:45 am

MR2 Zig wrote:i could be easily wrong here but......that looks like a motorcycle wet clutch at the front of the transaxle in the cutaway. Multi plate looking thing.

Scott

Good eye, it's a rear-mounted twin-plate wet clutch.

This is what the SZ could have become (had Alfa not gone bankrupt!

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Nissan GT-R transaxle driveshaft