Lancia Delta FWD to RWD???

[Infectus-Guy]

Originally Posted by animal

what about using a 4wd delta and slinging away the front driveshafts and welding up the diff?

This was my first idea, buy just enough bits to convert to RWD. But the problem with that is the rear drivetrain isn't built to withstand 100% of the engine's torque. Also it wouldn't give me the flexibility and choice of gearboxes, rear engine would enable me to use a fiat coupe box with LSD or longitudinal would give me a wide choice of boxes like Ford type 9 etc plus the flexibility of rear diffs.

Originally Posted by jcrosse

Interesting. I drove down to Oberhallau to watch Bruno Ianiello and others in the S4s last weekend.

Hmmm the S4 was actually a Delta "Lancia Delta S4 Stradale", i wonder if that could be of any advantage to me. The scrutes said i'd be fine to go up to 2.0 because the integrale was also a Delta, not sure if this rule counts with engine position though. The other issue is that they only produced 200 S4's for the road.

Originally Posted by jcrosse

Could you not see what can be done with your 4x4 setup (front-rear torque split), make your engine a bit stronger and boost the wotsits out of it? Or fit the 2.0-litre. As you say, the pre-Integrale HF 4WD was 1995cc and produced 265bhp in rally trim. Would that not keep you out of Libre?

My 1.6 HF Turbo is only FWD so there's no 4WD setup in place, going 2.0 would just put me up a class and give me more wheel spin!
Guy

[Infectus-Guy]

Double post

[jcrosse]

Sorry, I misread your post as four wheel-drive. I was thinking Delta HF 4WD but it was 2.0-litre.

[Infectus-Guy]

If i did have an HF4x4 i could possibly get away with longitudinal engine/box as the transmission layout to the rear would be original. Maybe i need to keep my eyes out for a mega-cheap rotten hf4x4 shell with a V5!
Guy