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!
Nissan GT-R transaxle driveshaft
'84 GTV6 3.0L
'81 X1/9
'81 X1/9
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
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
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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.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
Mats Strandberg
-Scuderia Rosso- Now burned to the ground...
-onemanracing.com-
-Strandberg.photography-
GTV 2000 -77 - Died in the fire.
155 V6 Sport -96 - Sold!
-Scuderia Rosso- Now burned to the ground...
-onemanracing.com-
-Strandberg.photography-
GTV 2000 -77 - Died in the fire.
155 V6 Sport -96 - Sold!
Good eye, it's a rear-mounted twin-plate wet clutch.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
This is what the SZ could have become (had Alfa not gone bankrupt! )
'84 GTV6 3.0L
'81 X1/9
'81 X1/9