This thread just died????

Did anyone ever get there hands on one of these kits?
Anyone got it up and running?

 

No one knows?

 

Was hoping to hear of some results from this also.

 

We should have at least 2 ppl w/ feedback not too long from now...

 

how about now? any updates?

 

and now??

 

I'm running a 5th gear from the b2000 truck tranny and it has worked out great. I've had it in for 2 years. While it limits top-end speed (who really needs to go 200?), it has way more low-end torque, making the gear - and my 20B motor - more usable for both street and track driving.

 

Not to bring this back from the dead or anything, but how did everyone do with the getrag?

After WAY longer than I had any right to expect at 600whp, I got excited over tuning for a race with some supercars and turned the boost up too high, goodbye stock TII tranny. I am running my spare right now, and I just bought a ZF 6 speed from a C4. Found it locally, it was way cheap ($450), and physical sizes and gear ratios are very promising. Even the stock pilot bearing will fit, and while parts arent as available as a T56, this tranny is supposed to be stronger stock and shift much nicer at high RPMs. I'm pretty busy lately and I promised the wife I will finish her bathroom before I spend any more time in the garage, but I'll start a thread and post some pictures as I get parts made.

After 2 years, I would still like to hear how everyone's solutions worked out who didnt have a freakishly strong stock tranny...

 

patman...wow, I haven't heard from you in a WHILE. I personally have only had one person (other than myself) fork over for the Getrag & adapter. And my car's tranny and adapter "hooked up" just fine, got the clutch & flywheel in, etc etc. But the car's down and will be down for the rest of the build for quite some time. Ditto w/ the other customer's car. So it's not a matter of whether or not it'll work; it does. Cuz I know someone who's been running this setup for a few years now... Prob is, the rest of us haven't finished our cars yet lol.

Oh and I even have a drop-in solution to improve the OEM rear diff gearing too...

~Ramy

 

I bought one of the kits, perhaps the first one directly from Carlos. It bolted to the Getrag tranny just fine along with the starter after I modified the bellhousing. The adapter plate also bolted to the 20b just fine. Unfortunately the engine and tranny did not bolt together as expected. The adapter plate was too thin by about .030 (or more, cannot remember exactly) and the input shaft bottomed out on the pilot bearing preventing the engine and tranny from mating up.

I've since sold the Getrag and Tilton starter that came with the adapter. The adapter is hanging on the wall in my shop since it such a pretty, albeit worthless, wrinkle finished powder coated part.

I've moved onto another project since then and mated the engine to a proper transaxle placing the engine where, if there was a god, he would have intended it to be.

 

I've seen your thread over on the GT-40's forum a while back. I can't wait till you get this thing going. I'll been wanting to do 4 rotor on this exact same kit.

 

yeah, i spent some time in England at an F1 team and kinda lost interest in the car, but now I am back and slowly working on it again... I am the lead engineer at a fab shop, so I have the resources and am thinking about making some interesting parts, but I just got married and I'm building a house, so my time is just a little limited. The boss let me buy a truck and trailer though, so maybe I will be ready for some road course action by spring if I can get her damn bathroom done....