At 01:11 PM 9/12/97 -0400, Douglas Mitchell wrote:
>On Sep 12, 1:07pm, Ken Streeter wrote:
>> Subject: Re: installing trany in a spitfire 1500
>> rob sargent wrote:
>>
>> > does anyone know if you can install a tr7 5 speed in a
>> > 1973 spit
>>
>> I don't know how to do it, but back in '89 or '90, I
>> took a test-drive in a 1977 Spit that had a TR7 5-speed
>> in it. The installation looked good, and worked fine.
>>-- End of excerpt from Ken Streeter
>
>Fairly straight forward. I think that you may need the bell housing
>from the Spit, as well as a driven disc from the later Spit. Not
>sure about the driveshaft. ISTR that the later Spits and the TR7
>used the same single rail gearbox. I think that the 5 speed box
>is externally the same as the early TR7 4 speed ones.
I'd be really interested in finding out if this is true. Looking in the
V.B. catalog, the 5 speed sure doesn't look much like the 4 speed.
However, the 4 speed does look like the Spitfire/GT6 transmissions. How do
the gearing ratios compare? How did the 5 speed hold up in TR8?
William Woodruff woodruff@fail.com
San Francisco, CA
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