Sorry Chuck, but that is not true. That was why I spent so much time and
money on the special gear set that made it the top four ratios of a five.
speed. Who really needs a.88 first gear for the street?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Arnold" <triosan@gmail.com>
To: "Bobby Whitehead" <igofaster@charter.net>
Cc: <fot-request@autox.team.net>; <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 10:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Fot] SVRA allows 5 speed transmission conversion!
> 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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