Like you X-5 Carl? That you can change the belts/pullies on? :confused:

The Spur rotates the same direction as the tyres on my ProCat, so do the wheels! :lol:

G

I heard about a secret varibelt system ??!???!????

Mooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahah ahahahahahaha !!!

really wanna know if the drive-train is sealed or not.........

I wouldn't have thought so, I'd guess it would have an undertray etc - but not a fully enclosed drivetrain.

Answer Tommorrow.:D

Cruise

why tomorrow
whats wrong with NOW

Less fun:p

Yes, with Cruise we used to have one day one clue !!!

if they had the motor turning in the same direction of the wheels, that might do something funky to the handling, as the rotation would oppose the squatting motion but that would need a layshaft driving a pair of idler gears (wtf....) or is this schumacher trying to re-invent the wheel?

Like the Trabant... that would make me PMSL

Yes Craig !!! and like moped also....

What do you mean with PMSL (sorry for my poor English understanding) ?

Olivier

Piss My Self Laughing

Oy! No making fun of the Trabi please. It's the only car that's as fast in reverse as it is in forward gear. They used to race these on an oval ... .. .backwards! :woot:

Besides, I believe Audi revived the vari-push-belt technology and use it on their excellent line of automatic gearboxes....

The Fireblade was known as the "Allegro" (crap English car)... surely the Cat SX wont end up being called the "Trabant" I just refuse to beleive it

:confused: Well that's not very specific is it... :eh?:

http://www.slowcarclub.com/santapod-07/mini-allegro.jpg
The AUSTIN ALLEGRO

This image was taken from www.slowcarclub.com says it all really, LOL

we had a brown allegro with gold twin stripes down the side too - mad

cool cars are not always fast, dont nok em!!!:thumbdown:, 60's 70's 80's and some 90's cars are the nuts :thumbsup:

i had a allegro and hand painted it black :D it was pretty fast and kept up with all the mk1 escorts :thumbsup:

That was the DAF with the belt gearbox. You just changed the size of the pulleys to change gear with a sliding lever. Intensely cool to be able to do 100kmh in reverse (theoretically :woot:)
Trabbis were just nasty two-strokes without a fuel gauge. You have to measure how much petrol you still have with a stick...

Here's how the DAF box worked http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...chsantrieb.jpg

What a suave car for the discerning gentleman

http://www.jalopnik.com/assets/resou...06/11/dafs.jpg


Sorry, just noticed this was violently off-topic but I was half-asleep when I read DAF somewhere :blush: