agricultural? maybe in your mind, but its no more agricultural than 13sec or Minstars subframes (no offence guys). Put in Warwicks words, the chain can handle 1000hp, don't think there will be any problems with 200hp. chains are used on high performance applications everywhere, and mechanical efficiency of a chain drive compared to a multiple gear drive is very good..
My Dad is old mates with Warwick (and its Agustin not Austin
) and i spent a lot of time in his workshop when he built it up. Things he did to fit it included (based on my flakey memory)
1: gearbox casing was lengthened at the radiator end by welding alloy plate on shaped to mate with the bottom of the 4AGE which is about 2 inces longer than A-series. The mating surfaces were milled flat and level.
2: the clutch/drop gear housing was cut and a piece welded in to raise the centre of the hole for the primary gear/crank tail, mating surfaces were milled flat and level.
3: a mini crank tail was lathe welded onto the 4AGE crank (personally i would have done this differently, as he had numerous problems before finding the ultimate solution)
4: a primary gear was machined and lathe welded onto a new chain gear, so the finished piece was a chain gear with the clutch splines off the primary gear.
5: a new chain gear was machined to fit to the gearbox input shafts
6: numerous fiddly bits like oil pickups etc were sorted
7: a hollinger straight cut dog engagement gearset fitted, with locked diff.
8: chain fitted
Warwick started developing this in 1990 and its still going strong. There is a lot of precision machining involved so it is quite expensive, and that made it prohibitive to sell in a commercial sense.
michael
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