Joint project between my girlfriend and I, we just got the transmission to behave right this weekend.
A 2gr-fe is a strange choice, but it really wakes up an old luxury car.
This thing is fucking ridiculous lol.
Joint project between my girlfriend and I, we just got the transmission to behave right this weekend.
A 2gr-fe is a strange choice, but it really wakes up an old luxury car.
This thing is fucking ridiculous lol.
Strange doesn’t even begin to describe it. Custom fabricated bell housing adapter, custom crank/flexplate adapter, custom oil pump and pickup tube, custom motor mounts, adapted power steering lines… the list is literally endless, the amount of “death by a thousand cuts” jobs it’s taken to make it drivable. But drivable it is.
You are using the oe transmission from the car?!?! Sweet Jesus I want whatever you are smoking. That’s dedication homie. You must persist.
Yup, had no choice!
Originally we were going to use the Toyota transaxle from the donor Avalon and just have custom CV axles made, but the GM E-body frame is too narrow in the engine bay to fit a transverse situation.
And converting it to RWD is very hard as the body has no allowance for a driveshaft- we’d either have to cut and weld the entire thing or body lift it 5", which ruins the look of the car.
Wasn’t the E body offered in both FWD and RWD configs? Or was that the previous gen E body?
Early ones were, yes. They could put both FWD or RWD body cabs on them, making them RWD had more to do with the body having trans tunnel clearance. I believe any E-body newer than 1979ish will always be FWD though as that’s when the Riviera dropped its RWD config.
It is the factory transmission like the olds Torinado where the engine is mounted axially? I have not had time to watch the video but this is a cool project. Props again to y’all.
Bingo you got it. The engine is longitudinal with the torque converter attached to a chain drive on the back, the transmission then sits alongside the engine and the differential is sort of in front of the engine. Very strange but IMO rather graceful solution.