triplethree

Greetings fellow FordFreaks!

I've been viewing this forum a bit now and there seems to be a wealth of knowledge here so I am going to give this a try. Here's to hoping someone on this forum will have a look and actually know exactly what this is. I recently acquired this gearbox, the following I know:

Dogleg shift gate
Direct 1:1 5th gear
V6 Bellhousing pattern
Bellhousing removable but integral as FRT bearing carrier
std Fine spline Ford input/output
All gears synchronised
Helical

The whole contraption looks like so


The ext housing with Rev/1st synchronisers


I also got a t5 on the bench in bits and this thing is way beefier built, all the gears are dual row steel cage needle rollered to the shaft and the synchros are 90mm ouside diameter! All the selector blocks and hardware are machined steel. Selector forks are alloy. The housing is also quite a rough casting, nothing that would seem std production stuff

Funny enough, no manufacturers markings on the thing other than an "E66L 116CA" mark cast into the ext housing and an "E77L 80A" engraved on the countershaft. Just seems too "Fordish" on the part number to be co-incidence.

Here's to hoping!

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James

mt75 from a xr4i?

iansoutham

Not off something like a V4 Corsair?

If you can wait, my father will know instantly if it is a Ford gearbox and probably what it fitted as he used to run a dealership when that gearbox would have been new.

E66 sounds like a 1966 production build, L116 sounds like a good engineering group and CA would be a final designation code, so looks good for being Ford.

triplethree

Hi Iansoutham,

I know the Ford Partnumbering rules quite well, I used to work for a Ford Engine plant, still have the rules pdf'd somewhere! along with a full set of block, head and crank engineering drawings for the Kent! (shhhh!) Still, 1966 just seems too long ago for how the box is engineered. E77L on the shaft would make that 1977, also just not peachy. A V4 corsair (I remember them actually using 3 rail 2000E style boxes, the V4 GT was the first to use the 2000E C/R) would make about a 10th of what BHP this thing looks like it can take, it's way more overspecced than the T5, the T5's synchro rings drop through this things!

Yes please, do ask your father if you get a chance, someone somewhere will know precisely what we are looking at.

Thanks
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t4 and greys

iTrader: (5)

could be way of the mark but looks similar to a grp n 5.0 v8 xr8 box ive seen somewere before
??
think only something like 200 or so were built iirc
maybe worth looking up some ford motorsport part no,s for the xr8 ??

bj928

dogleg and a direct 5th, to me sounds like an older comercial box, maybe ford iveco, or ford A series, top 2 bolt holes look to far apart for a v6 more like v8, but transits had a wide top2 as well, so could be something like that

triplethree

Which XR8? If the Ford SA XR8 from 1984 then it wouldn't be one of these, they used a T5 (066 tag ID), I have one of them too. If an Oz Falcon XR8 then maybe, please let me know which series.

Thanks
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