[Shotimes] SHO stuff

[Gerald Harmon]

>I was saying that T5's suck and nobody believed me.


I do if your the type person that goes around all the time powershifting all
the gear changes you make on the street.   I know for a fact I got great
service out of mine and gave it hell ON THE TRACK.   Mine had 106K and about
650 1/4 passes ranging from low 13's to high 11's on slicks with 95% of the
1-2,  2-3 and 3-4 gearshifts all powershifted.  I did eventually break a 3rd
gear.  Also mine was a 89 so it actually had the lower tq. rating of only
265ft-lbs.  I rebuilt it with the 90+ gears to bring the tq capacity up to
the 300ft-lb mark.  It was still running fine when I sold it.  The guy that
bought it broke it about three months later but he was a 17 year old kid
that drove the way I mentioned above.

I can't vouch for all the broken T5's everywhere but for me mine was great.

Gerald


>
>http://www.eden.rutgers.edu/~ianf/T5.html
>
>For all you could ever want to read on the subject, lifted from the
>jyturbo list. (plus some information on the SuperCoupe trans which is
>not a T5)
>
>Ian
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
>[mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Gerald Harmon
>Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 8:37 AM
>To: Ron Nottingham; Shotimes@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: [Shotimes] SHO stuff
>
>
>>The one to talk to on this list about T5's is Gerald Harmon (you out
>>there buddy?).
>
>Yea I'm here occasionally..
>
>
>He drag races a supercharged Mustang 5.0 with a T5.  I don't know
>>what he is using now,
>
>Tremec TKO now.
>
>
> but if you are willing to wait a couple days, I'll
>>look through my old emails from him describing his gearbox (or maybe
>>Gerald can pipe in :-)  From what I remember from him telling me, a T5
>>is only as good as the fool shifting it.
>
>Yep.
>
> An aftermarket shifter is a necessity, as
>>this is where most of the problems start.
>
>Yep here also.
>
>I'm late joining the conversation.  What's the question?
>
>Gerald  (Yall folks up North need to recall all this cold shit going on
>down here in the deep south..  A big ole 9 degrees here:-(
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