It certainly appears to be coming along well...
I realise the complexity will be a lot greater, but from the experienced gained with this project will there be enough room for a longitudally mounted V6? This will depend mostly on the gearbox selected. I've done a fair bit of research on this and found the following options:
ZF transaxle as fitted to GT40/Pantera
- awesome unit!
- output shafts are close to bell housing
- not much change out of $10,000 for one
Renault transaxle as fitted to R20
- quite cheap
- crap shift movement
- will take quite a bit of HP
- reasonable layout
- it's French..
Porsche 944 / 968
- 968 has 6 speeds
- moderately expensive
- layout might be difficult to handle within confined space of 'sud/sprint
Porsche 911 gearbox
- G50 unit quite expensive
- older 911 units reasonably affordable
- rotation?! Can the diff be rotated through 180 degrees to alter rotation?
Citreon DS transaxle (as fitted to Merak?)
- very compact layout
- bell housing looks close to Alfa V6 - ie minimal modifications compared with others above.
- its French, but at least it was in a Maserati
~Benjamin