While I was walking Monday evening a pretty girl drove beside me, rolled down her window and shouted out how sexy my body was “WHOO!” And I’m just vain enough to appreciate it. I was wearing a pair of my “just loose enough to let me walk” shorts and a shirt that wasn’t skin tight, but very much “not baggy”. I may be old and died once, but I’m not still dead. I like it when a woman someone tells me I’m sexy, even if I’m not interested in them.
The catcalls had the effect of causing my tension about the TGS2 to ease somewhat so that I’m not stressing about the build any more. I’m sure that if Mrs. the Poet had been the one doing the catcalling I wouldn’t be stressing about anything.
Anywho I did some looking up to find out how much the RWD version of the transmission in the donor vehicle weighed for a possible front engine RWD bucket and it looks like 100 pounds even. So that stuff to move the output from the end of the transmission to the other end and connect to the front wheels is either extremely heavy, or the previous reported weight for my transmission was way over reality. TBH I would be overjoyed if the 41te was in the 125-150 pound range, that would be 50-75 pounds off the rear axle. I tried to find another source for the 41te weight but all I found was another referral to the link with the 200 pound shipping weight with pallet less fluids. And the link to the 62te weight of 220 in same condition. What I really need is to have the donor vehicle in my drive with a hoist and a scale. Then I could stop looking for information on the web that might not even be there. Looking up the weight of a standard shipping pallet (bare) gives a range of 33 to 48 pounds which gives my transaxle a possible weight range of 152-167 pounds. 🙂 And the fill chart adds 65 pounds of fluids to that empty weight. 😦
So now I’m back to looking at odd tire combinations like 245/45R17 front and 315/35R17 rear Mickey Thompson Street Comps . The fronts are about right for the total weight of the car while the rears would be suited for a car much heavier than the TGS2, so I’m not giving up front grip, just going to extremes for rear grip. Welp, you gotta do what you gotta do. And I could totally drive around with those tires and just swap springs/shocks for Goodguys. They have the same diameter as the 255/60R15 Radial TA tires I was looking at for the street back when this project had a SBC in front of the firewall instead of a Chrysler V6 in front of the rear axle. So I can use the design ride height from all the way back to the beginning of this project back when it was the Sprint-T.
And my arm and neck are tingling and working wonky, so I’m putting this one to bed right now.
Witch on a Bicycle 