Those first pics of the F1 gear box looks exactly like a bike transmission, shift drum and all.

Quote Originally Posted by Shadow View Post
This is the reason we never went with the unequil length set-up in the first place, but instead, built a solid half-shaft to keep the forces as equil as possible.

Bizzare when you think that we are the only ones in the world that I'm aware of that went this route?
If your talking equal length, many OE's run it, GM pretty well had every FWD car with power with them, most import V6's have them and I've seen alot of Fords in the last 10-15 years have them, auto's as well as 5 speeds. My customers 1999 Sienna even has them.

Quote Originally Posted by 135sohc View Post
Earlier transmissions have a bronze bushing in the extension housing.
Yeah, they went to a solid chunk, probably cheaper to make.