Rotary Engine Install: Part 1, Page 4
04/10/99

All is not necessarily joy in Mudville, however. With the
motor sitting at the proper height, the pitman arm *just*
misses the corner of the oil pan, but the drag link WILL
hit it upon compression of the suspension. There's not enough
room to use a "Z-Link" type drag link, either, so a drop
pitman arm will be required:



Oil pan to front differential clearance is tight as well.
Although the diff sits behind the low part of the oil pan,
the pan is still too low. A minimum of 3" of suspension
lift is going to be required, IMO:



And on to the tricky part of this whole deal, extreme (RX-7)
tranny length. You can see the tranny tailshaft on the left,
and the Sammi tcase input flange on the right. There's
about 4" between them:




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