Prop angle

[Lefty]

Does anyone happen to know the angle on a standard car? Or could somebody do me a massive favour and pop a digital bubble on their prop (and check the floor and tell me the difference please?)

A virtual pint and a real one if I ever meet you

[FarmyardPants]

It’s not that easy to access the prop. Lattice bracing off, exhaust off, heat shield off…

Not something one could just pop out and do for you unless their car is already in bits…

[Lefty]

Ahhh fair enough, mine arrived without a prop and I didn’t realise it was covered up. Cheers anyway

[v8sag]

Prob not much help, I had 1 degree difference on the prop, going downhill over engine and box on the Chim. I thought common practice was not to run ujs out of alignment on 2 planes, or within 1 degree max on a 2nd plane. We are obviously screwed with 1 out of plane with the offset dif.

Pretty sure too without having my drawings with me, I had 35mm drop, centre of ls crank pulley to centre of trans output shaft.

Edited by v8sag on Friday 14th November 10:02

[Lefty]

Ahhh perfect that’s a great help thanks!

[v8sag]

Don't quote me on the 35mm yet, it may of been a little more and was based on the original rv8 and t5 angle. Pretty sure my fabricator checked off the chassis the ls install was 1.5 degrees. Be interested in what you end up with, if you can keep us posted.

This is where the tvr factory diff pinion to engine/trans angle was out 1 degree of parralell.

Edited by v8sag on Friday 14th November 11:18

[Byker28i]

Would it help to measure the distance from the gearbox to the floor, and the bottom of the diff to the floor. Probably need front and rear corners of the outriggers as well. Could possibly do that

[Lefty]

It would indeed sir

[v8sag]

Having the original angle may be handy as a rough guide, but the crutical point is having the diff pinion parralell to the trans output shaft, as I've put in the edited pic above. Your 1 step behind what weve just been sorting. The factory angle was out of whack in the chim, we were almost tempted to alter the diff mounts, but just within optimal tolerance now.

Edited by v8sag on Friday 14th November 11:36