Errol, will any of those effectively closen the ratios at all?
Then they could be combined with a different diff ratio?
zac
>Zac,
>The most common method of making a close ratio box is to have new gears
>cut, then machine the counter-shaft down and weld the new gears to the
>counter-shaft. There are a lot of people who can do this work but the price
>works out at approximately $650/gear (ie $1950 for fist second and third
>gears) Thats why option boxes are so dear.
>Often you can change overall drive ratios by changing input shaft gears and
>countershaft gears (ie 22 drives 31 used in most Nissan later 5 speed boxes
>to a 240K 4 speed gear set with 21 drives 32) this used in a 240K 5 speed
>gives a very useful overdrive of 0.92, but first is useless and there is a
>big gap from second to third. So the first three gears need to be recut.
>There are a number of ratio options available using different input gears
>and countershaft gears. You can even have a stump puller 4.2 first if you
>want.
>Cheers
>Feral Errol
>
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>From: Zac Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Ozdat List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Close ratio boxes
>Date: Monday, June 26, 2000 10:02
>
>List, whats the possibility of building our own close-ratio boxes?
>I have heard of people sticking bluebird gears in an SR20 box to get a
>lower
>1st gear...
>
>zac
>
>
>
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