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RE: 5-speed box for MGB

To: "'Anthony Rayner'" <A.Rayner@mailbox.uq.edu.au>,
Subject: RE: 5-speed box for MGB
From: "Randy Rees (Volt Computer)" <a-rrees@microsoft.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 20:45:32 -0700
No but please tell us more! is this an Aussie only Celica or is there a
US equivalent?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anthony Rayner [SMTP:A.Rayner@mailbox.uq.edu.au]
> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 1997 8:24 PM
> To:   MGB
> Subject:      5-speed box for MGB
> 
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I noticed that there is a thread about potential 5-spd conversions....
> 
> I met a guy (in australia) who reckons that he dropped a toyota celica
> gearbox into his MGB.  It would have been one of those older celicas
> (LT2000 type )
> I assume that is a 5 spd?  He said that the bell
> housing matched right up too.  If this is the case then he is onto a
> winner because those celica boxes are fantastically strong and
> reliable.
> Heaps of rev-heads put them into their V8's (non mgb) and have
> absolutely
> no problems.  It was actually quite hard to tell that he had a
> non-standard box in the car.
> Has anybody else heard about this conversion?
> 
> Bye.
> 
> Tony Rayner.
> charayne@dingo.uq.oz.au
> 

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