It has been suggested that it probably is not against the 1969 GCRs to use
a 5 sppedin our carsaslong as firstgear is locked out--meaning four forward
gears without overdrive.
Thoughts?
Chuck
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Bobby Whitehead <igofaster@charter.net>wrote:
> Some of ya'll (I'm Texan) recall the trials and tribulations of my sweet
> Bob Davis GT6 with a T50 5 speed gearbox.
> CVAR has not allowed the 5 speed conversion... I just ran out of the
> library.. with my March 2009 Grassroots Motorsports Magazine. Our fellow
> FoT'er Tim Suddard and his race prepared TR3 have apparently been allowed to
> make the transmission swap to a Borg Warner T5 five speed conversion.
> Apparently SVRA stated that "any car that came with five forward speeds,
> like our over-drive equipped Triumphs-can make the transmission swap". Maybe
> this is a new rule, apparently it is. Not that I don't mind playing by the
> rules... I'm on my 4th transmission job...$3000.00 plus dollars and DNF's
> 50% of the last 6 events...
> I'm on the newest Triumph transmission from Quantumechanics... a custom GT6
> transmission with TR7 gears and a J type overdrive.. modifications to the
> frame to TRY to make it work.. AGAIN.....
> Needless to say, I'm going after CVAR, ONCE AGAIN, to see if there may be a
> chance I can put the T50 back in the car.. I could have sold the T50 for
> several thousand dollars with the drive shaft, conversion, and mod's to the
> car... but I haven't... hoping I can find a spot for it.
> Frankly, I'm upset... seems if a national captioning vintage race group
> allows the 5 speed conversion, other groups should come around and
> acknowledge the swap.
> thanks Tim Suddard for the article, maybe we can move forward to reliable
> racing.
> I quote Tim's article " it's more fun to run reliable at the back of the
> group-or not at all." I've said it before, I don't care if I start last and
> finish last, I just wanna race... after all... it's an $8.00 trophy at the
> end of the season.
>
> Bobby Whitehead
> #53 CVAR Triumph GT6+ Group II
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