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Re: Transmission gear swapping

To: John F Sandhoff <sandhoff@csus.edu>
Subject: Re: Transmission gear swapping
From: T and E Corcoran <corcoran@bainbridgeisland.net>
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 16:43:27 -0700
John,
One of my 1500's has a 1600 bell housing and clutch mated to a 510 gear set
and tail housing. I get a better clutch and 1rst gear syncro. "close ratio
gear set" Works great.
Regards,
Tim
2 1500 Fairlady's

John F Sandhoff wrote:

> The Roadster tranny is unique onto the R and U engines. So I know
> that a 510 tranny isn't a bolt-up swap because of the bellhousing and
> who knows what else (length? starter location? Whatever). BUT..
> are the internal designs similar? Can I pull the internals from a 510
> box and put them into a Roadster box? The 510 has two different ratios,
> one that matches our Roadsters and another, lower ratio. I haven't
> compared part numbers on the fiche yet; that'll probably tell me, but
> has anyone out there successfully done such tinkering?
>
> -- John
>      John F Sandhoff   sandhoff@csus.edu   Sacramento, CA


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