Rippers

How loud are they? Can you live with them

Rab

VERY loud........



Depends on whether or not you have earplugs.

Dave Henshall

but super quick changes

Rippers

Anyone had one? Are they crazy loud?

fordsportjay

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off subject but did you get the spoiler?

Rippers

fordsportjay Yes mate thanks

Rick

they sound loud....... but v nice. Track car only imo

Anonymous

Ive never noticed any difference in change speed with straight cuts TBH



Main advantages of them are:

They are FAR cheaper to make

They dont give as much sideloading

They can take high shock loads




Disadvantages

They arent as durable and will wear out a lot quicker, the case hardening comes away then they chew themsleves to bits in a few 10s of thousands of miles at best normally

They are noisey

The metal from the case hardening wearing off them ends up in your oil




Im sure bernie or someone can give me info though




Personally i like the noise, but not a daily driver cause i reguarly do 3-4 hours on the motorway.

Rippers

The gearbox I'm looking at has straight gears 1-3 So I suppose long distance journeys won't be too bad?

Rippers

I beleive BigNige had the same g'box if anyone can remember it??

Anonymous

Not sure why you want SC gears at all?

But yeah that should be easy enough to live with

Rippers

For the 440bhp engine I'm having fitted.. I like my launches

Ollie.

Get it mate. They sound amazing IMO. You get used to the noise. Especially if its on 1, 2 and 3 which are straight cut.

Billabong

Nige had a Pete Doughty box.

Rippers

Yes he did

GARETH T

your thinking dog engament gears

Madbradz

I had one in my mini

Loved the sound.... It was a bit noisey... about the same as having a loud exhaust

wildheart

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Big Nige's sounded fine in the car,not too noisey at all.

wildheart

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Big Nige's sounded fine in the car,not too noisey at all.

dave cos4x4

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don't think you need one now Paul.

Doug

Noisy but sound the bollox well worth living with the noise and stronger



Regards Doug .

Smit

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Dave - What's up with Paul?

dave cos4x4

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well he is selling the engine that he bought off dave,change of plan.

so,may not be needing this type of box now.

Smit

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Bummer!

Billabong

He may have had a rethink.......given the time of this post, and lack of the previous post

Garage19

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Disadvantages

The metal from the case hardening wearing off them ends up in your oil

[quote]

Spoken like a man who is into his minis!

andyescos

Paul, Yes, they are loud, but it's not that bad a noise, and you'll find it adds to the fun. The best bit on mine was a large mettallic bang everytime you change gear, sounded so cool! Only thing is though, due to the noise you'll think you're in a rallycar and rag it everywhere, that's what I did anyway, but then again, It was a mk2 Escort!
You get used to the noise I spose, all adds to it ya know.

Anonymous

Lol, spot on

On minis its far worse getting into your oil of course, cause it goes round and trashes the engine too not just the box!

Rippers

Columbo has it right more details soon

I think along with the turbo/exhaust sound and floating disc rattle it will probably sound alright

markk

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if your car is a road car dont do it, it will ruin the car simple as, most people you will ask will have never had to live with a s/c box. i would never fit one to a road car simple as.

allsteel

Mines a sport box with only 1st gear s/c and it sounds great.All other gears are helical cut and it works a treat,it can also handle abuse.With having a big turbo you have to knock it into 1st for really slow corners and the noise is great.Has a really long 1st gear too so you can hold it for ages.

andyescos

Yep, I used to get 65mph out of 1st gear!

Anonymous

sounds terrible for launching?

allsteel

Experimenting with a few methods.

markk

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mine would do sub 4 seconds on gearing like that to 60 - so quite the opposite really, as long as youve got the power to pull it !

Billabong

Paul, Spadgeroo & Dunc have both had PD boxes IIRC, hopefully they'll see this when they're back from the show and give you their thoughts.

Anonymous

Fair enough, bet it eats clutches while doing it though!

markk

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i never lost a clutch in 6 years , and was even just an AP four paddle single plate how experiance pays

BigNige

Straight cut 1&2 are cool i loved the sound

However i wouldnt go for the input shaft too as all gears otehr than 4th is noisy then

But they dont break as often as std but yor rear diff will if you do 7k launches with side stepping teh clutch

nige

Rippers

Nige was it 1st and 2nd or 2nd and 3rd?

You got another pm

Thanks for the replies guys would be great to hear Dougs and Spadges experiences aswell