managed to blow my gearbox on the isle of man yesterday so having to go down the route of a new box (well presuming since can't get any gears except reverse) so possible options are.

rebuild to existing spec

rebuild with helical gearset

rebuild with straight cut gear set

straight cut being the strongest would be the prefered option for strength, but have been told its got a loud wine and a paint ot live with, anyone out there got one? how bad is it?

helical is much quieter but not as strong.

its to go in my00 uk turbo runnign the standard engine bar a decat and remap, but i'm planning to have a big engine build in the near future and aiming for close to 500bhp, so seems stupid to spend money on a gearbox only for it to be replaced again, hence doing it now.

whats peoples thoughts/experiances?

(prefer first hand knowledge rather than 'heard this and that' please folks)

 

You could get a 6MT, will handle 450 bhp all day long.

 

A guy on here, 'cookstar' has the straight cut box, and after me asking he kindly posted a little video of it on youtube.
YouTube - PPG whine
This will show you about the noise of the straightcut box!

 

My word.. Just listened to that video, don't think I could put up with that on a daily basis no matter how much power it handled!!

 

I have a stright cut, but no engine to make it whine at the mo

 

hey cookie, whats it like to live with?

 

Bit marmite mate

I love it though, sounds great. And its nice to be confident in any style of driving you choose to adopt, its not gonna break

 

Hehe, I knew you would be along soon cookstar! I still love that video myself! lol.

 

what do sc recommend? surely they know your car

 

 

biggest concern they had was the wining, hence me asking.

cost wise seems to work out about the same for helical cut and straight cut which are the two options that i think im gonna choose from

at the min a standard replacement box would be strong enough, but as said its for future upgrades i'm thinking of

 

Do you have a loud exhaust?

 

very lol

 

then you wont hear the whine anyway

 

ahhhh lol

 

bit of an update, went for the straight cut ppg gear set, and o how sexy is the wine lol

 

good lad. where did ya have it done?

 

hey cooky

scoobyclinic mate

 

Glad your pleased with it. Have you given it some stick yet


Your stickers look great BTW

 

cheers bud, yeah and blew the weather strip off the right hand side of the car at silly speeds pmsl

dis different to my other one, had a new clutch fitted and the new one has a much longer throw on it cmpared to the old one, so still getting used to it a bit.

 

what flywheel have ya got

 

same one mate, that went back in

 

Should have whacked a lightened one in while it was al out

 

tbh i pondered it but in the end decided against, just more money to add to the already big bill

 

yeah true, what did it sey ya back all in all

pm if ya want

 

roughly 4k for all the stuff i had done

 

You missed out on the flywheel mod.
API just did my box and added a light 'wheel, just feels so much better.

Graham

 

should have mine back this saturday, rather than muck about ive gone for the dual plate exedy clutch which comes with a light flywheel

should handle anything im going to throw at it

 

tbh im not overly concerned, im not running mega power, for now, and when the time comes the uk internals aint gonna cut it anyway so engine out anyway