DonCorson[AHCI]
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Please explain "rope drive".
May 27, 2018,23:07 PM
I have no idea what that could mean.
Don
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Who is chasing whom.
By: Bill : May 27th, 2018-14:20
Pomtiac Lemans with a monster in his rear view mirror. Ok i will give the details later about the Pontiac. Ps the car in the rear is not right hand drive it is the reflection on the mirror. ...
'71 SS El Camino? . . .
By: Dr No : May 27th, 2018-14:26
. . . or Malibu? Hard to tell, Bill. In any case, you don't often see two muscle cars back-to-back anymore. Not like the old days, when they'd zip by all the time . . .
It has an amazing amount of interior room.
By: Bill : May 27th, 2018-18:30
The achieve this because the is no central hump for tye drive shaft. Below You can see what they call the rope drive in the rectangular box ...
A very thin, flexible shaft drives the car
By: cazalea : May 28th, 2018-08:01
They call it a rope because it sags in the middle (like a jump-rope used by kids) allowing the tunnel to be much smaller than normal. From an engineering point of view, the shaft can be lighter (saving weight) because the transmission is integrated with t...
You knew . . .
By: Dr No : May 28th, 2018-11:43
. . . this was coming. ;-) . . .
GM called it Torsion Bar Drive; customers called it rope
By: cazalea : May 29th, 2018-06:03
Engineering never would have called it “rope” in my opinion. But it was first of its kind, thinner than your thumb, and “rope” conveys the sagging in the middle bit. I found a relevant passage from its developer, the infamous John Z DeLorean who was respo...
That’s so cool 😎
By: Cpt Scarlet : May 28th, 2018-02:48
It’s made me get the Stingray out today !