Mating a Tuscan RV8 to a T5 box - Help !

[Tuscan_No27]

Also posted in TVR Tuscan Challenge Forum.

I've recently bought a 1999 TVR Tuscan Challenge car with gearbox but minus the factory owned AJP engine. Even more recently, I bought an original Tuscan Challenge engine.... the 4.5 litre cross-bolted, dry-sumped RV8 version. So my garage floor now has the car, an RV8 Tuscan engine and a T5 bearbox all neatly laid out but not altogether.

I need a bellhousing for starters but that aside I'm not sure how the two mate together........ the T5 has a splined shaft end with 23 splines but the hole in the end of the engine (when looking through the flywheel) is about the same diameter but with only 10 splines i.e. a much coarser pitch. Are the two supposed to mate or is there an additional component inside the bellhousing ? I suspect there isn't, so what is my best course of action - change the gearbox shaft to a 10 splined jobby or the engine to 23 splines ?

Thanks !

Richard

[eliot]

the splines are actually on the clutch plate, so I guess you just need to swap the clutch plate over.

[Tuscan_No27]

Thanks Eliot.

That sounds not too bad.

[350matt]

you can usually find a bellhousing on ebay for about 150 quid

Matt