Who has broken a 6 speed?
#161
Those t5 trans are sloppy though. That is the biggest reason I havent used one. They shift like crap. Everyone I know has to let the rpms drop quite a bit to shift those boxes.
I may just have to spring for a GSR dogbox. I would like to give the queef gears a chance, but I dont know if they will be here in time. At this point $2500 for a gearset that wont break sounds awesome.
I have also thought about the s2ooo tranny. They are pretty cheap and much stronger than our 6 speed. Thoughts?
Adapter plate and drive shaft, done. Clutch would be easy.
I may just have to spring for a GSR dogbox. I would like to give the queef gears a chance, but I dont know if they will be here in time. At this point $2500 for a gearset that wont break sounds awesome.
I have also thought about the s2ooo tranny. They are pretty cheap and much stronger than our 6 speed. Thoughts?
Adapter plate and drive shaft, done. Clutch would be easy.
#164
I believe many of you are looking @ the Quaife gear set as just being "stronger" than the OE 5 and 6 speed. It is but it's also a whole lot more. Less parasitic driveline loss due to the gear tooth pitch, better gear ratios for FI and high strung NA Miata's and arguably better shift feel/engagement than the 6 speed could ever hope to have.
--Ian
#167
I have been told that the reason FM stopped selling the Quaife gears is that, when put into actual deployment, they didn't turn out to be significantly stronger than the factory gears. I'd be kinda pissed if I paid $3K for a "bulletproof" transmission and then had it fail the same as 5-speeds do...
--Ian
--Ian
Look at Matt Andrews TA Miata. It's still going strong and he's had it since 2008. I've had mine for about the same time and it's still going strong.
#168
I finally got an answer from Quaife and they are producing more gear sets in the end of January. If you order now you will get them 6 weeks later (March). There are currently no sets in the US. That is the good news. The bad news is they are going to run $2400. Although expensive by the time you figure down time and wasted track days when the tranny breaks I guess the best long term option for high horsepower Miata guys.
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