well I found a bit of info, something about it would work but there would be a gap between the seal and the jack shaft letting trans fluid drip by.. I can make a plate for the back of the motor to anchor the intermediate shaft to, and I can have a seal made for the trans/output. I just need to know if the cv will fit into my hub and if the jackshaft will fit into my trans.

oh and if the length will work(I do believe it will be fine on length.

any info would be appreciated, thanks in advance

 

I found a thread with relevant info. By google searching " 2g dsm equal length half shafts" try that out. I can't link from my phone.

 

ya, the very top one that comes up is great info. it's such a pain trying to word things just right to make the google machine work lol. thanks, I have found a few other discussions on this topic now. seems like the only thing thats not quite right is the cv/output seal. I guess I will just order a jackshaft and see if I can make this work. my local driveshaft guy has made a few semi custom jackshafts and thinks he could mod one up for me if I need. I'll keep this updated, hopefully I can make it happen

 

Please do, I've know a few people who want to do this mod.

 

So I'm not sure if this has been confirmed, but I stumbled upon a possible solution. I was under the impression that the sypder gs and gst axles were the same, which I now know they're not, but recently discovered that the passenger spyder axle has the same part number as an awd half shaft... interesting. I popped some junk AWD axles in my spyder gs manual trans and if you spin just one they sort of just click past each other, which may or may not be normal. I've never really messed with a trans this way. I popped a clutch disk in there and put the trans in 3rd gear and everything seemed smooth and tight. It seemed like the splines were fully engaged. Now, I'm wondering how hard it would be to swap the gs front diff. into a gst, and then if the ELHS parts would just bolt in afterwards. I've read about a couple successes using awd front diffs, but they seem like a lot more work than this does. I'm not going to try this, being that I went AWD. Just being curious. Any insights or opinions?

 

The splined part of the axles are different sized from awd to fwd, therefore an awd axle will not work with your fwd front diff. It has been my experience that this will not work on a 2g, and the best option for traction is to go awd.

 

Hmm, if you're talking gst, then no, awd axles won't fit. BUT, I went from spyder gs to AWD, and used the same passenger axle with no issues 1500 miles later. Being that the gst and 4g64 gs trans are very similar, I wonder if the gs center diff could be transplanted in a gst, and awd axles used.

I have also transplanted the spyder gs trans into my 1990 laser fwd and after I replace my bad passenger cv axle, if all is well, I plan to try an equal length halfshaft with 2g axles. Just trying to keep everyone from dismissing the possibilities here...

 

Yes i was referring to a fwd gst, i don't know many 2g spyder GS's that make enough power to experience torque steer.

 

Yes, I believe the issues stems from 90-92.5 fwd, awd turbo and NT all using the same size diff splines but post 92.5 all turbo fwd vehicles had larger diameter splines so they cannot use the equal length mod directly. You *might* be able to install an early FWD diff or maybe even awd front diff, to make the equal length mod work, but I would rather just swap to awd