I think the original poster want to know what that actual original number (rather than just the tolerance) should be for the vehicle he's converting. Perhaps he has a donor where the ICE was already out before he got it?
- Peter Flipsen Jr On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Adrian DeLeon <del...@charter.net> wrote: > No effect. The "magic number" is the distance between the transmission > mating surface of the ICE engine block and its flywheel mounting flange. > Reproducing that distance with a transmission adapter plate and taperlock > coupler will put the flywheel/clutch assembly exactly where it was after > the conversion. > > I've seen recommendations that the distance be kept within 0.005" of the > original number. From my own conversions, there was a LOT of wiggle room in > the bell housing and on the transmission shaft. I think the precision only > needs to be such that the clutch disk properly grabs the transmission shaft > and the clutch mechanism properly engages/disengages the clutch. YMMV. > > Some details can be seen here: > http://evbimmer325i.blogspot.**com/2012/06/measuringthe-** > magic-number-althoughthere.**html<http://evbimmer325i.blogspot.com/2012/06/measuringthe-magic-number-althoughthere.html> > > -Adrian > > ______________________________**_________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: > http://www.evdl.org/help/**index.html#usub<http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub> > http://lists.evdl.org/**listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org<http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org> > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/* > *group/NEDRA <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA>) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20130305/73fb8b10/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
