Jump to content
SAU Community

Recommended Posts

If the car has broken a couple of stock gearboxes at its current power level, IMO you'd be a madman to put another stocker in there, it's just a waiting game until it goes again.

A wise man once told me - buy cheap, pay twice.

Hope it all works out for you though, no-one likes their pride and joy to be off the road.

hey mate i can get you a 89 32 GTR gearbox for 450 !

you have to swap the bell housing, or just swap the whole gearset

its the cheapest way to do it

and you never know what you will find inside the box

a mate bought a 32 one and it had been changed to the series 3 33 GTR box already

BONUS

let me know if you need a contact mate

mike

If the car has broken a couple of stock gearboxes at its current power level, IMO you'd be a madman to put another stocker in there, it's just a waiting game until it goes again.

A wise man once told me - buy cheap, pay twice.

Hope it all works out for you though, no-one likes their pride and joy to be off the road.

couldn't agree more R33 were notorious fro breaking 3rd

Steve @ Manta Racing knows his skylines he rebuilt my front diff without even taking the engine out everywhere else was saying ah that job the engine has to come out and you could eat your lunch of the floor of his workshop very tidy and meticulous

The gearset is going to take around a month to be delivered, i would like to put a stock standard box or gearset in fot the meantime.

If anyone knows of an 32 or 33 gtr boxes around cheap then let me know as i'd like to put one in this weekend.

Cheers

Finally got a new gearbox without the trouble of waiting for it to come from overseas. The box is being assembled as we speak and consist of an OS Giken close ratio gearset with upgraded input shaft, all new synchros, bearings and seals. Just could not bring myself to buy some worn out wrecking yard box with unknown history. Basically paid the same as it would cost to build one here but i dont have to wait 3-4 weeks for parts to arrive from Japan and then assembley time, labour costs etc. Looking forward to the added reliability.

Finally got a new gearbox without the trouble of waiting for it to come from overseas. The box is being assembled as we speak and consist of an OS Giken close ratio gearset with upgraded input shaft, all new synchros, bearings and seals. Just could not bring myself to buy some worn out wrecking yard box with unknown history. Basically paid the same as it would cost to build one here but i dont have to wait 3-4 weeks for parts to arrive from Japan and then assembley time, labour costs etc. Looking forward to the added reliability.

Mate these set-ups are great...we run one in our racecar and you would be hard pressed to tell the difference from a stocker. We just ran a 9 sec pass at the drags with ours and although i dont punish it, its seeing almost 500AWKW and holding up well. Synchro maintenance is the key to keeping them together.

Mate these set-ups are great...we run one in our racecar and you would be hard pressed to tell the difference from a stocker. We just ran a 9 sec pass at the drags with ours and although i dont punish it, its seeing almost 500AWKW and holding up well. Synchro maintenance is the key to keeping them together.

Sounds good and will more than meet my needs.

What oil do you run in yours? I was using light weight shockproof in my last box but i have heard mixed opinions. It takes all the noises away in a worn box but when you dismantle a box that has been using it, the oil is stuck to everything but the gears.

Sounds good and will more than meet my needs.

What oil do you run in yours? I was using light weight shockproof in my last box but i have heard mixed opinions. It takes all the noises away in a worn box but when you dismantle a box that has been using it, the oil is stuck to everything but the gears.

DONT use redline shockproof in a new synchro gearbox....a good quality 75-90 gearbox oil such as Castrol Syntrax will do the job. Redline Shockproof is not suited to synchromesh gearboxes.

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now


  • Similar Content

  • Latest Posts

    • Hi, We've all posted some thread, or know of some other person's thread, that contains information that we want to send people who are asking question to. But if we don't have a link readily available, have to go do a search for the thread before being able to do so. So, it occurred to me that we could possibly utilise the auto-text-replace function that fixes some of my swear words to perhaps auto replace some special keywords with text that also has a link to the thread. A specific example. The thread that I did with the improved R32 GTR wiring diagram scans. If the phrase "R32 GTR wiring diagram" could be auto replaced with "R32 GTR wiring diagram" then all I (or @Duncan, or any of the others that refer to the thread) need to do is remember that that's the keyword (or phrase in this case). OK, it would be better if this keyphrase wasn't that long, but it does need to be specific enough that it doesn't get triggered automatically. And obviously there are threads on turbo topics, or suspension topics that we could treat similarly. Alternatively (and/or additionally), I've been thinking about trying to build a library of the real expert content that is trapped in the bowels of the 25odd years of this site. Things like some of SydneyKid's content. There are threads that he started that should be more easily found, and he has individual posts, or series of posts, in other people's threads, containing very good information. Some of us know that it is there, but....just have no memory of exactly where/when/how we saw it. If we had some sort of library thread, we could put posts in there containing links to things we've found, suggestions for how to categorise it, then a mod or other appointed thread maintainer can copy the link and any key text up into the first post in the library thread. There are probably many other ways to get it done. Some sort of wiki is probably the best way.   Thoughts?
    • But, probably that happened to the last person too, which is why the RTV was there.....if you aren't putting a new gasket in you will need to seal the old gasket back to the metal surface with something, the gaskets will generally only work properly for a single use as they set/harden in that shape
    • What is with the horrible blue and white bit in the centre of the wheels, didn't that come off with some scrubbing?
    • Not sure how broadly you define Northside  but Castle Hill Exhaust are still around and could sort it.
    • I haven't done this as I still use the factory cluster, but I do know the circuits for the flash vs on for hi beam are separate which is likely the issue. The ON runs full power through the switch and the flash uses the relay in the engine bay. I'd hit the wiring diagram per GTSBoy's suggestion
×
×
  • Create New...