Good morning

 

I am building a Banham 550 Spyder which is based on a Skoda 120LS.

 

I was hoping to link an Alphasud 1500 engine to the Skoda 5 speed gearbox.

 

I have had an adapter plate made & now need the Skoda 1st motion shaft

extended & adapted to suit the Alphasud engine.

 

I know its been done before but the first gearbox company I approached

said the Alpha engine is too torquey for the Skoda gearbox.

 

Any comments please or name of somebody who can do the modification?

 

Thanks

 

Tony Woodfield

9 minutes ago, Maltings said:

Skoda 120LS.

 

I was hoping to link an Alphasud 1500 engine to the Skoda 5 speed gearbox.

Are you sure? I thought the 5 speed box was only in the 130 series, and came with semi-trailing arm rear suspension rather than a swing axle.

Thanks for that.

 

According to the DVLA document it actually states "SKODA 120L 5 SPEED".

 

I bought it as a rolling chassis not operational. Unfortunately The gear

knob has no markings on it.

 

Definitely a swinging half axle car.   

 

A bit concerned now, is there any way of checking without taking the

gearbox apart?

 

Regards

Skoda gearboxes handle 100-140nm as long as you don't launch it don't worry. The alfasud develops 135nm so you are all good