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- Subject: Re: Mazda rotary in a Europa
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- From: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams)
- Date: 11 Dec 92 18:47:00 GMT
- Reply-To: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams)
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- -> Just one point is that the Europa halfshafts (twincam at least) are
- -> the upper control arms for the rear suspension and thus they take
- -> axial loads that CV joints would not be happy with. Halfshaft swaps
- -> would also require major rear suspension rework (hub carriers in
- -> particular). FYI I'm contemplating a rebuild of my Twincam.
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- Nah. Corvettes, Jaguars, and most street rod IRS do the same. With
- the easy availability of uprights from IRS and FWD cars nowadays, it's
- pretty well a no-brainer to just replace the whole thing - no reason to
- carve up good Lotus parts, which are probably marginal anyway.
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