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I hope you have narrow hips, are you sure you have room for that gearbox? or perhaps it won't go so far forward as to affect the seat area?

Hi Stu,

I checked that gearbox is 570mm from the diff centre front section of the gearbox.
I also checked my std Mini seating position and I have 760mm from the centre line of a rear wheel arch. I think wheel base of Midas is 4"(100mm) longer so I should be OK.
This Volvo 360 setup is very good as it uses a torque tube, it make more or less separate chassie. I think old Lotus has similar setup.

People are talking about make sure I have to have good spread of subframe mounts and so on. I would have front subframe which will use std subframe mount position as per design of Midas. I will have a torque tube which have prop shaft inside but it will connect an engine to a gearbox as 1 unit. I hope I make sense to you people!

Cheers
Atchi

570mm leaves you with plenty of room.

Can you keep the standard steering rack and position then?

That's my friend is my main concern with this build.
I might use nova steering rack. I think they are type that arms are about 2-3" below main body.

Here's mine on 175/60-13 tyres to give you an idea how your 185/55-14's may look

Hi Stu,

The back end looks high on yours.
Are all Midas like that?
I have bought Yamaha R1 rear shock for my build with double wish born setup.
They are adjustable height as standard so it might be OK. I worked out that I will need to cut 50mm off wish borns and 200mm off subframe itself.

Cheers
Atchi

The back end looks high on yours.
Are all Midas like that?

It was very high, that's standard factory Midas set-up, nearly all were like that. I got around to lowering it a short while after that.

good luck this promises to be an interesting thread your a clever bunch on this forum i love reading through the projects section

Oh..thanks!
I just make it up as go along .

I think I'm getting my bell housing machined this week sometime.... I hope.
Then I will get my engine block will be bored to 75mm and skimmed.
I'm not sure if I want to fit oil squirter or not.

Cheers
Atchi

Hi,

I got my bell housings from the machine shop back!

This is Swift Gti half gearbox casing.


This is Volvo 360 bell housing machined down to what I need.


This is what I will end up. I know it's not pretty but as long as it works, I don't mind.


I will be sending these 2 bits to my mate so he can Tig weld it for me.

Cheers
Atchi