It's behind the gearbox but won't work without an extended 3rd motion shaft
which you'll have to have made. You'll also have to enlarge the tunnel
and shorten the tailshaft. Some Le Mans Sprites used a B series O/drive
gearbox but they were built to accomodate it.
Peter
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From: andy webster <trunkie@hotmail.com>
To: spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Speaking of conversions...
Date: Thursday, 29 April 1999 5:04
What is the nature of those laycock de normanville(?) elec overdrives?
Is it in the B gearbox or behind it? If the latter could it be
adapted?
Andy
>From: "Angela Hervey-Tennyson & Peter Westcott"
<toobmany@bigpond.com>
>Reply-To: "Angela Hervey-Tennyson & Peter Westcott"
<toobmany@bigpond.com>
>CC: "Spridget List" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re: Speaking of conversions...
>Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 18:56:46 +1000
>
>The battery tray has to be cut away and the tunnel enlarged.
Somewhere has
>to be found for the exhaust as well. New engine and gearbox mounts
are
>required and the tailshaft ends up very short. It's not a pretty
thing but
>back then Bugeyes were worth nothing and I suppose the same fate
befell big
>Healeys with big six or V8 conversions. And just think of what that
extra
>weight would have done to the suspension and brakes! They were also
>impossible to keep cool. Most of these cars had a very hard, short
life
>and disappeared, I only know of one remaining and that also has the
Morris
>Major torsion bar front end grafted on.
>
>The irony of it all is that they were very rarely quicker point to
point
>than a standard spec car.
>
>Peter Westcott
>
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>From: Ulix Goettsch <ulix@u.washington.edu>
>To: Angela Hervey-Tennyson & Peter Westcott <toobmany@bigpond.com>
>Cc: Spridget List <spridgets@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re: Speaking of conversions...
>Date: Wednesday, 28 April 1999 1:45
>
>On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Angela Hervey-Tennyson & Peter Westcott wrote:
>
>> now. Also a common upgrade in the 50-60's out here was the B
series 1500
>> and gearbox which made them go in a straight line but otherwise...
>
>I have wondered about that but had dismissed it with the logic "if
it were
>possible, everyone would be doing it and I would have seen one by
now".
>Do you know how well it fits, what kind of modifications are
required?
>
>I am not going to do it, I am just wondering.
>
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