Vance Jaqua wrote:

George
For your belt drive from the single rotor, why
not use the Mazda clutch mechanism instead of
the jack shaft with the motorcycle "basket"
Per the sketch below you would use a lightened
flywheel (incorporating the counterweight), and
a regular RX-7 clutch assembly. A special bell housing
(an easy casting) carries an outboard bearing set
to take the belt tension loads. The shaft is
supported at the flywheel end by the usual pilot
bearing, The shaft could be reworked from a
 transmission input shaft, or machined from scratch.
Recessing the toothed pully (like a front wheel drive
wheel) put all the tension side loads into the
bearing and almost no load into the pilot bearng.
Replicate the clutch lever provisions into the bell
housing, and use hydraulic atuation.

Have you contacted Paul yet? as you can see I am cc
a copy to him.
Vance

Nice design Vance.

Paul Lamar
 
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