[mike mueller]

Rich,
are you familiar with the "clutchless"
systems being made by RUF? He gets rid of the clutch pedal and has the tranny shifted by actuators which get their signal from microswitches that are located in the shifter. It's all micro-processor operated, but a much simpler design could be made.
Since you are putting in that big-a$$ engine a hydraulic pump wouldn't rob you of too much power to operate the actuators.

TFI, I believe the biggest complaints of the tailshifters is the shifting mechanisms itself, and not the tranny, so if you could make a decent cable shifter to replace the factory one for the tailfshifter it would be more popular than for the sideshifter....

IMHO....



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Mike Mueller
Antioch, CA
1970 1.8
http://www.pelicanparts.com/MotorCity/mmueller/personal.html