View Poll Results: what to do about the impending trans death

spend $1500-2000 on a retail price trans and rear end

spend $800 to get one of my various 5-speeds built with micropolished gears

23.81%

sell the car and buy a silver 135 w/ red leather and track that

7.14%

sip a forty and holla at a shorty

69.05%

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this transmission crap is about to push me over the edge

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01-25-2009, 10:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Savington

My 5-speed gave no warning. Spin first, hard 1-2 shift, spin 2nd, hard 2-3 shift, kablammo. My tranny had 1-2-4-5 and a wannabe-neutral 3rd.

Yep, same for me. It wasn't really a kablammo so much as a grindy crunch crunch.

LOTS of clanking for a bit, but I pulled it open, reached inside with a magnet on a stick (as well as magnets on the side I'd pull debris up with) and cleared out all of the chips. For a couple days there was some small clanking, but now the car runs fine, and the only downside is when I drive other people's cars, I skip 3rd from force of habit like a 90's corvette.

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Originally Posted by ThePass

In a year I will be moving South and plan to spend a lot of time working hard to get up to that list with my 5 spd 4.30... FWIW I would never put a 3.anything in a miata intended for aggressive use. There is no use and it only makes it slower than the other easily available options (4.10 and 4.30)
-Ryan

What? Why? The 4.3 is LOW LOW LOW. Jesus. And the 6 is super low - they cram another gear in between 1st abd 4th, since 5th is 1:1 on the 6 speed. With a 3.6... sigh, I don't have the numbers handy, but every single gear (1-4) is lower on the 6-3.636 than it is with the 5 speed and the stock gears. So you can't tell me it's too tall.

Also, wow: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ9gZ...eature=related Yeah, clearly vettes suck.

Anyway, I beat the **** out of my car without any thought to how it'd hold together. I would say 3rd was getting a bit harder to get into, but nothing I notices... Then, with much less power, I just popped it. Go figure. My only advice: Put the 6 in now, sell the 5 while it still works, that will pay for your R&P swap alone.