Originally Posted by chip-3door
Originally Posted by Turbosystems
The failure of third gear main and layshaft is a fundamental design floor.
The box is nothing more than a old ford granada gearbox and is cheap for ford and not up to the job.
The pulsar one is based on a 1.4 fwd pulsar box i believe?
Mazda one is nearly the same as 1.8 N/A Mazda 4x4 family kickaround. Scoob one is N/A Legacy one with altered ratios and slight reinforcements - still cannot take even 300bhp realiably.
So again, its not really anyworse than the other homologation specials.
Just ford forgot to install chocolate pistons to protect it
And intake exhaust restrictors like Mazda....
They only set this funny boost preassure and mapping...to protect it