first nos pass, need new trans

[HarrisonTX]

IMO anyone using a manual trans and no scattershield with any type of modified engine is rolling the dice on not walking or being injured. It's a good idea and cheap insurance.

 

I believe this too.

BUT, I also believe its RPM that will make a flywheel come apart. With a 383, its probably not turning much passed 6,000.

It takes someone seeing a piece of flywheel cut through the floor then the dash and out the windshield, or seeing one embed in the concrete before they really want to invest in a blowproof.

[pparaska]

Yeah, I saw what an exploding 283's flywheel did to the frame rails, headers, dash, pavement, etc. etc. in a nice 57 Chevy when I was in highschool.

 

Ever since, the few hundred bucks for a blowproof bellhousing seems really cheap.

 

If you put a Pro 5.0 shifter and a decently long (8 or 9") handle on it and use the Synchromesh, the Tremec 5spds shift decently. Make sure you align the input shaft with the crank center/bellhousing etc.

 

But with the kind of torque you are using, I'd be looking at the trans that dr_hunt is talking about. How many $2000+ "maybe this will hold" trannies are you going to go through before you buck up for what will work?

[HICKL]

I just don't know if I can live without my overdrive. This car spends 95% of its life going back and forth to work. Most of that is 75 mph down the highway.

 

I may be nearing that crossroads of being content with the speed and call it a daily driver or keep wanting more (as I do) and make it a race car...which will hardly ever get to the track.

[grumpyvette]

watch THESE (found on youtube)

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://forum.grumpysperformance.com/viewtopic.php?f=71&t=447

Edited January 12, 2010 by grumpyvette

[dsommer]

HICKL,

 

I'm really PO'ed to see your Gforce transmission took a dump on you while spraying it with only a 100 shot. I was going to go with the ASPEC gears which claim no HP rating but tested in a 3000lb car it held, what that means I don't know. I really need to find the write up.

 

Now you guys have got me thinking TKO 600 and more money.

[Pyro]

I run a 175 to 275 shot n02, on a 362 sbc with 200cc darts, shift at 7200 rpms, with MT drag slicks and a bone stock T5. best run was 10.7 at 135 with a 1.6 60 foot.

 

I think something wasn't done right with your T5.

 

I do shift my trans on the slow side.

 

The only time I broke a T5 was my stupid fault when I sprayed N02 while in 5th gear. And it just broke 5th.

[dsommer]

HICKL,

 

Who built your tranny. I would have to agree with Pyro that "something" seems out of place here.

 

Pyro, what rear end set up are you running? Open, LSD, welded?

 

HICKL same question on the rear end set up.

 

Thanks,

David

[HICKL]

G-force built my tranny.

 

Yesterday I took it to a local T5 expert. Runs a mustang shop but builds these things all the time with G-Force parts. He thinks this was a fluke, maybe just a bad batch of material on my cluster gear. He feels, as we all seem to, that it should have held up to much more than I am throwing at it. His suggestion is to replace the bad gear and try it again.

 

Am running a stock open dif.