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Say you had a mid engine configuration, but instead of the traditional transaxle, the engine/full size trans were mounted backwards (ie: tail shaft pointing towards front of the car) longitudinally. Assume engine rotation is unchanged, the power is now spinning counter clockwise from the tail shaft. In order to transfer power back to the rear wheels in the correct rotation, a conversion is needed in gears.

What is the easiest way for this to be accomplished? I was thinking that a splined shaft would take the place of a driveshaft, with a 1:1 machined gear housed underneith it, changing the direction of power. this gear would also have to have an output shaft and splined surface for a conventional driveshaft to transmit power to the rear wheels. There a normal IRS rear could be used to power the wheels.

Is there any hodgepoge of parts that can be assembled from current parts (I was thinkinking the 4WD crowd may have something, or AWD people) without having to design a housing and machine up gears? Any ideas?


MM