I´ve heard that you can use a larger clutch from an s10 if you have the flywheel machined with new holes for the press plate to bolt to. This leads me to believe that the input shaft for the s10 and opel 4 spd is the same.
My question is, is it possible to change the bellhousing from an opel 4spd to a s10 5spd and possibly modify the shifter on the 5spd, get the clutch hooked up, etc... and have a cheap alternative to the getrag unit sold on Opel GT Source?
The possible oddities I can think of are:
input shaft position and depth
speedometer cable hookup may be wrong
output to the driveline will probably be a custom unit
shifter position may be way off, like in a Shelby Cobra
actual size of the tranny may be too large
tail mount will be custom
Anything else you can think of that would really hold it up? I think I can talk to the machinist instructor to take care of a custom lenght input shaft, but if the position is wrong I don´t know what to do other than a custom bellhousing, which would kill the plausability of this project.
My question is, is it possible to change the bellhousing from an opel 4spd to a s10 5spd and possibly modify the shifter on the 5spd, get the clutch hooked up, etc... and have a cheap alternative to the getrag unit sold on Opel GT Source?
The possible oddities I can think of are:
input shaft position and depth
speedometer cable hookup may be wrong
output to the driveline will probably be a custom unit
shifter position may be way off, like in a Shelby Cobra
actual size of the tranny may be too large
tail mount will be custom
Anything else you can think of that would really hold it up? I think I can talk to the machinist instructor to take care of a custom lenght input shaft, but if the position is wrong I don´t know what to do other than a custom bellhousing, which would kill the plausability of this project.