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I'm happy for youjan :these are my cars and i am very happy with them.
They ALL need repair.Jeff I am with you 100% on the working on tranny thing. Eric G. and I pulled the shift forks out of one I toasted and I can say with confidence I want nothing to do with rebuilding these things. Would rather swap in and out half a dozen unknown units to find a good one.
Well, with the few emails that I have received, I am not sure what to do.
I would like my SIII to be as original as possible, I like when a car is original (well, I try my best to keep it as original as I can with the limited funds that I have). The car has a SV Tranny in it now and I worry that it is going to let me down. So I guess I would like to ask the group what they think would be best! Would I be better to rebuild the SV tranny that I have or should I make the change? I just thought that if I have to pull the SV tranny, I might as well change it back to a SIII, that is if I could get my hands on a good tranny. Is there that much of a change in the cars and how they run as per what tranny is installed?
Andrew
Andrew,
I have a professionally rebuilt non-synchro-1st trans in the Alpine and an all-sycnhro box (history unknown) in the Vogue. The Alpine tranny is nice but the Vogue is better - quieter in 1st and better shift quality. I'd love to have a box that good in the Alpine. If I were in your situation I would have the all-synchro trans reconditioned, for two reasons... First is that you already have it and don't have to go finding and probably reconditioning an SIII box, and Second, it will drive nicer.
Cheers, Vic
Let's take this thread one step further, shall we? I have a transmission that, according to the previous owner, was a Series III close-ratio box and was, to use his words, "ready to go." Consequently, after a cursory check of a mechanic friend, I put it in my Series I race car. I was aware that 1st was non-synchro but, since very little racing is done in first gear, that was no problem. I did find out, however, that not only did the transmission leak like mad, but that the damn thing won't go into 2nd gear when downshifting from 3rd; it just grinds. I have to actually stop the car to engage 2nd! At first, I thought I was inadvertently trying to stuff it in reverse on the downshift, as reverse is over to the driver and down (exactly where it shouldn't be for this type of activity...). But, as I was coasting down the street, trying to engage 2nd, I was very careful not to push the shifter past the reverse detent...and it still wouldn't engage 2nd. More grinding ensued.
I have a good Series V box that I took out of the car in favor of installing this "ready-to-go" box. What I ended up with is car I can't drive. The gear ratios of the Series V box suck for racing, which is why I wanted to change to the Series III box in the first place. At this point, I'm looking for opinions (I know...be careful what you ask for...). Is it worth it from a performance standpoint to rebuild the Series III box, or should I stick with the better-shifting Series V unit and just live with the huge ratio gap between 2nd and
3rd gears? Let the opinions fly...
Thanks,
Is it possible to put early gears in a later gearbox?
It would be nice to put whichever ratio gears into an all syncro box.
Anyone tried it?