Wayne, It is hard to find information on a concept car so I was perplexed for a while, but if I had been paying attention to your earlier post I would have known. In 2003 the Mercury Messenger was a concept car by Mercury (Ford) using some shared Jaguar parts. I did a little reading and think that possibly the Ford DEW platform (DEW98) used in midsized rear-wheel drive cars developed by both Ford and Jaguar engineers may be some of what you are working with. The platform was used in 2000-2008 Jaguar S-Type, 2000-2006 Lincoln LS, 2002-2005 Ford Thunderbird and 2008 and forward Jaguar XF.
In some Ford applications you may be able to find a rear carrier in the ratio 3.58 but please double check, I am no expert, just a wild guess. Between 2002 and 2003 there seems to be a change in the rear end compatibility of parts. http://www.ebay.com/itm/2002-FORD-THUNDERBIRD-REAR-AXLE-ASSY-1W63-4K139-AA-M205-PM580A-3-58-NEW-BUT-/111769691880?hash=item1a05fe26e8&vxp=mtr Ebay item number 111769691880 Complete assembly for a 2002. http://www.ebay.com/itm/2002-Lincoln-LS-REAR-AXLE-DIFFERENTIAL-3-58-RATIO-/321647525933?fits=Year%3A2002%7CMake%3AFord%7CModel%3AThunderbird&hash=item4ae3afc02d&vxp=mtr Ebay item number 321647525933 Looks to be a steel housing with a broken back cover. http://www.ebay.com/itm/181826281443?ru=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_from%3DR40%26_sacat%3D0%26_nkw%3D181826281443%26_rdc%3D1 Ebay item number 181826281443 This one is aluminum. I like the looks of the concept car you are working on. You have posted pictures on your site. I like the rims as well. http://www.ev-blue.com/Mercury_Messenger_Concept_Car/001.html Have fun! Alan -----Original Message----- From: EV [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Electric Blue auto convertions via EV Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 9:34 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [EVDL] Mecury Messanger I have this Mercury Messenger just about done, did a test drive and found out the rear end ratio is way to low. 2.53to 1 , This car has no trans, no place to put one. Its direct drive I find out that the rear end Diff and carrier with axles are all Jaguar X-type, The bad thing is that Jag only made the X-type with one gear ratio, 2.53 to 1 . I did a tooth count . Finally I found a BMW SUV that the front diff is about the same size, (smaller) but the axles are bolt to gear, the Jag is slip in spline to gear. Now I have to make mounts, modify the BMW axles to adapt to the Jag axles . The Fun never ends . The test drive was like being in a buck board LOL , No springs in this car, it was for show only, so the owner will put air bags in it when it gets back to Chicago -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150923/49e71467/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
