OT - Car gearbox question - answered!

[guest18]

For reasons which I'm not prepared to disclose at the moment(!) I want to find out if there is an easy way to reverse the output of a car gearbox. EG. if I was to rotate the engine horizontally through 180 degrees without modification I would have one forward gear and four reverse, how do I get back four forward and one reverse?  
(Hillman Imp Transaxle if that is important)

Over to the font of (almost) all knowledge that is the Thumper Club  

Answered by the Imp gurus first... turn the transaxle upside down... that'll teach me to look for the complicated answers! lol 

[guest27]

Build in a frame and a mirror 

R

[themoudie]

Aye Smudge,

Spotted a nice BRG, Sunbeam model today in Birnam, complete with those alloy wheels.

Couldn't possibly imagine what your intentions might be!

Tarra, Bill.

[Steve Lake]

are you building an italian tank by any chance?

[themoudie]

are you building an italian tank by any chance?

Triking, from down the road Steve.

[guest18]

Both wrong 
Still in the ideas and planning stage but if anyone guesses right I'll stand them an evening in the legion 

[themoudie]

Dive boat motive power!

[guest18]

Cool thought, and the engines actually were quite popular in hydroplanes for a while, but in terms of my ideas, getting much colder 

[niblue]

Building a plane with a pusher prop.

[guest27]

Colder - umm a skibike?

4 cyl frappe machine?

A personal sub with 4 gears and CO cabin injection?

R

[guest18]

Nope nope nope and whaaa? nope!

Doesn't float or fly, (or remain neutrally buoyant Rog  )

[niblue]

Some kind of 4wd, twin engined monster?

[Jez F]

Three wheel drive outfit/ trike?

[guest18]

Still nope and nope 

Think outside the box gentlemen!

I'm considering a return to the (whisper it) Elefantentreffen in a year or two..... and that's as much of a clue as you're getting 

[niblue]

A front wheel drive, imp powered trike?