Hi Nicolass,......... guys
Thanks for the reply, the pictures are really helpful.
Looking at the third picture where you have the bug nosecone on the left and the bus one on the right - it looks like they are exactly the same height (length from base to the top of the nose cone) and it looks like the linkage shafts come out on the same centre line position in both planes, ie side to side axis and vertical axis. The only difference I can see is the is the bug nose cone has the front mounting position and the bus one doesn't - which is exactly the bit I am looking to get rid of.
Now, a full non syncro box (the type that should be fitted to my 1950 pan) doesn't have a front mount, it sits in the rubber donut and horse shoe arrangement, so with a little modification wouldn't that bus nose cone be able to do the same thing? In other words allow me to fit an oval box straight into my 50 pan.
If the shafts come out of both nose cones in the same position and they both come off an oval split case box then I can't see why this wouldn't work????...............or have I missed something?
I have also spoken to Pete of Cogbox and he seemed to think that the bus and bug nosecones had a different shaft centreline position in the vertical axis which would make the box sit wrong in a bug pan, but from the pictures that doesn't look to be the case.
The other thing Pete suggested is that I simply cut the front mount off my oval box and trim up the nose cone to fit, as the centre line position of the linkage shaft in both axis didn't change from year to year in early cars. This too seemed to make perfect sense.
So there appears to be a few options on the table here - anyone else have an opinion on this?
Cheers for your continued input chaps
Glenn