Gearbox

[evokiller]

hi guys can any of you tell me what power a standard 2000 turbo gearbox will hold to before i need to upgrade it

cheers evokiller

[RA Dunk]

350 depending on how you drive it, sometimes alot less

[colin_ross]

What year is it? The earlier one won't take as much as the later ones.

[AlanG]

  Playsatan2 said:

What year is it? The earlier one won't take as much as the later ones.

Oh i dunno... i had a TY752 on mine for 8 months at over 500Ib ft before it went...

350Ib ft should be alright long term as long as you're not using the car for drag racing or hard gearshifting on a paddle clutch.

Edited August 29, 2007 by AlanG

[colin_ross]

  AlanG said:

Oh i dunno... i had a TY752 on mine for 8 months at over 500Ib ft before it went...

Yeah, but then you do drive like a ladyboy. A real man would have had it on the back of an RAC truck on day one

[AlanG]

PMSL. Doesn't say much for your driving when you were always behind me on the Glasgow run to Rest and be Thankful last year!

Edited August 30, 2007 by AlanG

[colin_ross]

  AlanG said:

PMSL. Doesn't say much for your driving when you were always behind me on the Glasgow run to Rest and be Thankful last year!

Safest place to be when there's old duffers on the road. Besides, if you hadn't driven all the ay there with your indicator on I might have made a move.

[AlanG]

That was to tell you to pass, but the contorted face and fingernail imprints on your steering wheel told me you didn't have enough power to do it.

[RA Dunk]

  AlanG said:

That was to tell you to pass, but the contorted face and fingernail imprints on your steering wheel told me you didn't have enough power to do it.

^^^ LoL^^^

[frank c]

[colin_ross]

  AlanG said:

That was to tell you to pass, but the contorted face and fingernail imprints on your steering wheel told me you didn't have enough power to do it.

Now I understand. I thought you'd knocked them on by accident when you were upwrapping one of your wothers originals. As for my face, you know I always look like that.

[fai17]

yous are mad

[mrbadger]

So what do you have to do to get a safe 400bhp through the gearbox on a classic?

[AlanG]

  Playsatan2 said:

Now I understand. I thought you'd knocked them on by accident when you were upwrapping one of your wothers originals. As for my face, you know I always look like that.

lol. I couldn't hear the indicators cause Terry Wogan was on Radio 2 at the time.

Drivetrain shock is the gearbox killer. A paddle clutch provides very little clutch slip when starting off or changing gear. You may have 300+ Ib ft of torque out of an engine, but "bang" that load into the gearbox with a hard shift and the loads will rise tremendously on the 'box internals.

I never had an issue with 415/352 on a 2litre with Sti box (lower ratios) and AP organic clutch, but broke a couple of UK's prior to this using an AP paddle clutch. For normal road use i don't see much of a problem. It also depends how good the 'box is in the first place.

Before i ran the 2.5 at 500+, i overhauled the Sti 'box and it ran for 8 months before 3rd gear broke (not under load). This wasn't ordinary general driving. Every time the car was taken out, the full performance was used as the car wasn't used for general going to work or shopping duties.

Edited August 31, 2007 by AlanG

[fai17]

  AlanG said:

Every time the car was taken out, the full performance was used as the car wasn't used for general going to work or shopping duties.

One careful owner then...

I like your style boss

Edited August 31, 2007 by fai 17

[scoobymark]

  Ac!D said:

350 depending on how you drive it, sometimes alot less

I can confirm that evokiller drives his car like a man