Gearbox Wanted

Yea ,tranquilsers ain’t cheap on the black market :wink:
Don’t forget to add another grand or so for gearbox oil cooler ,gauge and instrument pod lol

Don’t forget to add a gearbox oil cooler if you plan on tracking it.
My total when JSR did mine several years ago was about £4k that included
2nd hand gearbox
LSD
Jubu 3rd and 4th
Gearbox rebuild
JSR gearbox cooler (1st one)

well worth it in my mind as it has been fine ever since with ~300hp

Is the LSD worth having for road use ?

Depends on the car parks you frequent lol.

Road use, I would say no.

If funds allow and you ever get wheelspin then yes…
Otherwise no…

Mine are still holding up (SSC FD as well)
I agree with the pricing you suggested, about the right ball park.

So it seems that I may have been a lucky boy. Didn’t seem like that back at Anglesey :slight_smile:
It was the final drive. There are 4 or 5 teeth missing from the crown wheel but fortunately hasn’t damaged anything else in the box.

I’m going to go back to a Jubu final drive, but this time semi helical rather than straight cut. Also going to get the Celica C60 6th gear put in so that although the gearbox will be shorter from 1st though 5th it will still be approximately the same ratio for 6th.
Hoping that will take the ultimate edge of the noise for motorway journey’s. Will still be a ear defender job, but its all relative.

So if you are running upwards of 300 hp then after 3rd, and 4th, you’ve got to be thinking about the final drive. I was also running a gearbox laminova type oil cooler.
Still really kicking myself that had the original Jubu final drive one removed.

That’s good news Will, hopefully we can get together on wards from the end of June.

Seconded, great news :

End ofJune you say. …? It’s my birthday at the end of June…how 'bout Donny on the evening of Fri 28th and a curry?

Which hospitals would those be in then? :wink:

I can’t do the 28th Ben, it’s my teams football presentation. I’ll be looking up dates soon though :smiley:

Big sigh of relief for you Will…
I’m sticking to 300 or less in mine to preserve the investment !

Nice idea but I’m on my bike, London to Paris that Friday/Saturday so won’t work for me.
Also car still won’t be Donny friendly yet, at least until the unsilenced day later in the season.

Might just have to be some sort of meet up rather than a track day, unless some other noisy days come up in the interim.
Will get the car quieter for next year.

What about Snett Will? Never been there and it’s down your neck of the woods. Are they a bit less fussy about noise???

They aren’t as fussy as Donnington, but they sent me home after the first session last year. That’s one of the big reasons to get the car quieter.
If you can’t do your local track then is a pain in the backside.

Indeed, both you and Ade are comedy loud. I’ve got Jamie’s old exhaust to go on my car, not sure what that’s gonna do…

Is there anywhere you can take your car right now apart from Anglesey and noisy days??

I plan on going to a local exhaust fabricator and having a 2nd external box for quieter days, I just can’t stand not being able to use the car as much as I want to, I can’t however afford to do anything else with the car than this to make it quieter.

Are you sure it still has packing inside the silencer Ade? I know Jim reckons his packing is indestructible, but frankly that’s bollox in my opinion.

Some of the exhausts I have seen on SC’d S2’s have got that bloody hot (and I’m not just talking about Jim’s exhausts here) that there is no way on earth that the packing will be in any fit condition inside.

Why not see if a local fabricator can turn you silencer into a re-packable one? Mind you even Jim does those now, so maybe he could convert it for you.

Not wishing to start a war, just my 2p.

it has never really got any noisier it was always really loud anyway :wink:
might just be a project for the winter…