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Unread 13-12-2011, 13:21
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Re: pic: Team 3647 West Coast Drive

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Originally Posted by Mk.32 View Post
This was something I thought about but the reason why I didn't do it was because the gearboxes are fully based on the toughboxes. If I changed the layout of the gearbox (moving the sprockets inside), it would mean we would need to make custom shafts and I want to keep machining down as much as possible.
We were able to do this without making custom shafts by using the cluster shaft from a supershifter. the main output shaft works with a larger gap without any issues as long as you get the extended output shaft
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