Angle drive

[Chris Williams]

frostrobo Wrote:Ok I need to ask this question, and I quite appreciate that I am probably missing something here but...

Why is the DeLorean angle drive so special? Don't all cars on the road have them? - is there not a parts cross-reference? Or is there something totally unique about it?

I'm sure that when the car was being designed they had far bigger problems to contend with than getting a cable from the front wheels to the speedometer, so why could they not have used a Jaguar or Ford angle drive for example?

Please don't all shoot me at once :-)

Most cars of that era, used a cable driven speedo, driven from the gearbox. I dont know of any others off the top of my head that are driven from the front wheel like a DeLorean, Maybe Lotus's were??? I'm sure someone who knows will correct me on this :wink: And most cars did not use an angle drive at all, just plugged the cable into the gearbox.
Hope this helps a bit.
Chris