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v8ian
ian stewart
just north of London, United Kingdom, Planet Earth
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12/24/2009 04:06PM

Main British Car:
67 Ford Cortina 3.9ltr Rover

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215 to six speed
Posted by: v8ian
Date: April 15, 2010 04:23AM

The machining of the gearbox bellhousing in automatic gearbox thread has got me thinking, Which in most cases is never a good thng!!,
In the corner of my workshop I have a low mileage Lexus IS200 6 speed manual gearbox, is it worth thinking about putting ths behind a RV8 as it has an integeral bellhousing it would need machining to get it to fit, probably graftng a BW style auto belhousing onto the lexus box,
Does anybody know if this box is up to coping with 350hp+?????


roverman
Art Gertz
Winchester, CA.
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04/24/2009 11:02AM

Main British Car:
74' Jensen Healy, 79 Huff. GT 1, 74 MGB Lotus 907,2L

Re: 215 to six speed
Posted by: roverman
Date: April 16, 2010 11:12AM

Ian, my WAG. would be, if it's several pounds heavier than a Supra 5 spd, plus add ? for integral bh., it's probably equal to or stronger than Supra ? It may well be easier to cut-off integral bh. and back-adapt to Rover/Triumph bh. Good Luck, roverman.


roverman
Art Gertz
Winchester, CA.
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04/24/2009 11:02AM

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74' Jensen Healy, 79 Huff. GT 1, 74 MGB Lotus 907,2L

Re: 215 to six speed/IS 200 , Anybody ?
Posted by: roverman
Date: April 20, 2010 07:15PM

Ian and clan, What years? I'm told Japan only. I'm getting nowhere, to find. Got ratios ? Thanks, roverman.
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v8ian
ian stewart
just north of London, United Kingdom, Planet Earth
(54 posts)

Registered:
12/24/2009 04:06PM

Main British Car:
67 Ford Cortina 3.9ltr Rover

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Re: 215 to six speed
Posted by: v8ian
Date: April 21, 2010 05:29AM

Gearbox was available in Europe, and after some searching, I have been told the box is not up to coping with 300+HP, BUT I have aso found out the later Lexus uses the same generic gearbox as the MazdaRX8 and HondaS2000, which I beleive to be a viable gearbox for conversion


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