Renegade V8 question
 

This may be an OT thread....


The question is about mounting gearboxes to alternative engines in general. It could even be about mounting a Miata engine to a Hewland gearbox.

I know a few guys here run V8 conversions, so I thought they may have a quick answer.

To mount a G50 or 915 to a V8 requires an adapter plate. How do you compensate the clutch for the plate thickness?

Is the flywheel mounted to the crank with a spacer?
Is the flywheel a custom manufactured with an offset?
Or something I haven't thought of??



Thanks

The flywheels are usually custom designed with the center hub from the donor engine (SBC, etc) incorporated in a Porsche flywheel, with sufficient spacing to compensate for the adapter plate. I think Renegade has their own custom made ones, but Kennedy engineering has a variety of different ones as well:
http://www.kennedyeng.com/vw_por.htm

Non-porsche example is the vw diesel-suzuki samurai kit I used in my samurai. It uses a Suzuki flywheel, with a VW "hub" welded into the center. It's spaced by 3/8", the same thickness of the adapter plate.

Here's a Kennedy Adapter & Flywheel I bought a couple years ago. It's for a 901 tranny:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1181007083.jpg