At 6:58 PM 11/23/98, Joshua Van Tol wrote: [...snip...] > Far simpler to run it forward, but >flip the diff, or, if that's impossible, flip the whole tranny. KEP has >some info on this in their catalog. > This whole thread has been fascinating, but does any one recall how the 1970-1975 914's drivetrain ended up with 5 forward gears and 1 reverse given that the engine was FORWARD of the transaxle...as opposed to the way it was in the 1976 912E? Wasn't this feat achieved through flippin' the diff'?
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