Hey guys, I'm new here, and I have pretty much only one *teeny* question (* = pretty damned difficult to answer)
So I have an opportunity to obtain an '82 280ZX-T in almost perfect condition for a few hundred bucks, sans engine+tranny, as my friend is going to swap the engine into an S30 of his choice, and tune it (possibly going the route of a GT-R head swap), and the tranny is the slush box. I also have a fair opportunity to possibly get an RB26 fairly cheaply, and I want a 6-speed RWD tranny, but I don't want to f with the RB26 tranny, nor do I want to swap in a Supra tranny. In fact, I'd like almost nothing more than to keep with the 280ZX-T tradition, and use a Borg-Warner tranny. I know T-56 (now made by Tremec) is a common swap for cars with T-5 transmissions, and I would like to know if it'd be feasible to mate an RB26 to a Borg-Warner/Tremec T-56 transmission, and still keep the stock shifter position? Perhaps even mate that to an R200 with a Quaiffe LSD (this isn't going to be my daily driver, so I don't really mind saving up for like, a couple years to finish this up), if they make it in a 2-way version.
I've been looking around the forums and the "rest" of the internet to no avail, as pretty much everything I find is for the V8 swaps, and I have no wish to do that. Thanks to anyone that can answer my question, I've been a fairly big Nissan/Datsun fan for a few years now, and liked the Z's when I was younger (granted, only a decade ago I was 8 years old), even though I didn't fully understand what they were, though I was pretty well-versed in cars even by then, being that my father was a mechanical engineer with a penchant for cars, mainly touring cars. If I recall correctly his favorite was the Jaguar E-type.
Many thanks,
Scott