wing

anyone remember what gearbox he had

Kelv

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PM him and ask him!

Twellsie

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as above

Luca

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Stage 2 berni box im led to believe

pa_sjo

IIRC IB5 with Quaife gear kit. Could be completely wrong though, memory is shot these days

Rippers

Was a Bernie Stage 2 with the Quaife ATB diff, was before the the plus version was availible.

Was a BC5 which originally had RS1800 gears but was later changed to standard because I was doing three gearchanges to 60 and 5 in the quarter mile

Despite me telling Performance Ford many times it never had Quaife gears yet the feature said it did, the same way the spec on the time table says 'cams' yet they where standard aswell

If Performance Ford read this please can I have the pics from the shoot of my Fiesta, I asked Ben and Keith at the time but didn't get them, I pm'd Dave Moore but never even got a reply. I know it was a long time ago but I've always wanted them

ps I have a stage 2 box for sale at the moment exact same spec with standard gears and Quaife diff done less then 500 miles for £700

McGoo 69

how much bhp can the box you have for sale take ? i need a good fwd box for my mk5 escort and focus rs engine

matty

Rippers

No idea what Bernie rates them at.. I had about 270/280bhp max so maybe upto 300bhp would be ok. I never had any probs with the Bernie box I had what so ever.

wing

i've already got a stage 2 cts box but i stripped 2nd gear, i'm hoping straight cut gears will be stronger by a lot

Luca

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Im afraid te stright cut Quaife gear kit for these boxes was intended for
N/A powered cars.
Its rated limit is 150hp which is listed by Quaife

McGoo 69

i need a 500-700 bhp fwd gearbox, whos the best person to talk to?

Luca

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Get on your knees and ask for God

McGoo 69

haha rofl i know its gonna be hard. its only to last me a yeear or so hopefully untill i either

a) find a escort cos roller

b) use mitsubishi evo drive terrain as i know its possible as there was a ford ka with a yb engine running it

crazycage

have you got any idea how much this sort of thing will cost ??

McGoo 69

not for the evo drive terrain no.. ive only seen it in fast ford so i know its possible

getting a escort cos roller is the more likly option..

crazycage

why not just buy a escort coss then ??? its no easy job putting a zetec into one

McGoo 69

beacuse im using what i have now.. dont have the cash to go out and buy a escos i want a project to build to my taste.

forget it now i dont want to thread jack

Luca

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Its the big unknown so you wont get answer..

Its going to be a try it out and see.

I reckon the 6speed box or perhaps a mtx focus rs box which is in MINT condition iternally would handle that power, for how long who knows.

Theres people who have run 500hp through a stage 2+ box which lasts a while key to it all is having a good strong well built box.

Unles your building this as a pure drag strip/topspeed car 600-700 hp is wasted for anything else. Id budget a good 25k+ to achieve that kind of figure.

If your wanting to go 4x4 route then thats a differnt matter, evo rs running gear is the way to do it but again thats going to cost you bet part of around 5k in transmission.

crazycage

what ever mate !!but you and me both no you wont see this through ive see all your other projects that you haven't finished and they weren't as hard as this one

McGoo 69

basicly im building around the turbo i have (turbotechnics gtk650) going to be using alot of the pumaspeed 600bhp capible stuff. it will probably be near'r the 500bhp mark than the 700bhp as im not a total lunatic! haha

will have to see how it goes fwd for now then think of other driverterrains if all fails

McGoo 69

haha what a cock no need to be bitter over nothin.. ive had one other project with was a track day fiesta which i shouldnt have started in the first place as the base car was my runabout i got carried away with..

i already had this mk5 to tend to so i got rid of the fez and bought a cab to simply runabout in which ive not touched apart from escos rims!

tonyk

I cant see you getting a fwd box to take 700bhp and high trq to be honest and will the car be drivable?

RAT8OY

If you want to build a 700bhp FWD car, go for it! It wont be easy, but if it was we would all do it!

Take it from somebody who knows (like luke) it aint going to be cheap, despite being handy yourself with a spanner!

john16v

There's an RS2000 4x4 with evo gearbox/transfer box, engine needs to be moved though.

Rab

Tell us more!! Any pics? Links? Vids? Anything? That sound cool as fuck

alan12112

Just a thought on the fwd gearbox issue, what does the mgzr fwd drag car use?

Sure that thing has way over 600bhp?

carlo

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mcGoo69 i think you are dreaming personally. & drive terrain? is it a rough ground gearbox your looking for think you mean drive train

AGAR-COSWORTH

Paul - Are you still building your new red FRST?

Ebonycossie4x4

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is 600 bhp in a front wheel drive mk 5 escort just not a complete waste of time and money.

Hate to jump on the bandwagon but youre going to spend as much as buying an escos anyway.

you can get a fixer upper for under 10K

a cosworth engine struggles at 700hp so surely youre going to have trouble.

id love to try the torque steer out when its done though lmao

Rippers

no mate all breaking it all

AGAR-COSWORTH

Sorry to hear that, the EsCos problems costing too much?

Rippers

Not that really with two kids now and the missus not going back to work and work tightning up It wasn't sensible to start yet another wife dodger opps I mean project

AGAR-COSWORTH

Fair enough - tis a shame though, your old one was awesome. I think it still holds the FWD acceleration record for an RST.

Rippers

The 0-60 is my only remaining record.. I think

westus1

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if you dont have enough money to buy a cheapish escos then you dont have anywhere near enough to build a fwd escort with 500+bhp. engine, turbo, management, gearbox and everything else, all thats got to cost well over 10k to build and i mean well over