AZ6 Swap Available!

[oldeskewltoy]

The AZ6 is fitted to Mazda's MX5 and the RX8, it is also fitted to Toyota's SXE10 and Nissan's S15.

Now I know based on the AZ6's design that there are three main housing parts - the tail housing, the center span or section, and the front housing integral with the bellhousing. This adapter would be part of the front housing - in essence rear half of the front housing, the part that encloses the gearset. I KNOW the center section of the RX8 and the MX5 is the same... Rob Golden works on both.... I ASSUME that it will work on the SXE10 and the S15 versions because of the design by Aisin Industries.... economics demand as low a cost as possible... and all are AZ6 family so I ASSUME it will fit the Nissan and the Toyota/Lexus....

Now is it a fair assumption??? Everyone must decide on their own.... I can only give you the information I have. If I(we) had an S15 or SXE10 version I'd be happy to test fit it.....

btw... I check currency conversions today... €741, or £504... and for any Japanese readers..... ¥119000


A further update as to why the "pre sale"......... with the adapter almost finished the engineering moves to the input shaft. I've had many questions from the Aussie HR forum asking me about the "grafted" input shaft, and how we are doing it. I've been vague because Rob hadn't finished his thoughts on it....

There are a few options related to the input shaft.

The crudest would be to machine the two ends similarly to the BMW logo... slip one over the other. The shaft that would have the split would also get a fastener holding the two parts together... this would then finally get a compression sleeve slipped over the joint.

The next is to spline both shafts and put a splined slip over both.

there is discussion of welding a larger diameter input shaft onto the AZ6 shaft... machining the new end to be true and the proper diameter, then resplining, and finally retempering

Finally there is the possibility to make a short T50 input shaft that on the none spline end, is splined on the INSIDE and receives the AZ6 input shaft.... in a 1 or 2 thousands interferance fit.