sequential gearchange for the t5
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Wonder if they will do mt75?
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Really, is it in production? I have the oppliger box and short shift but the short shift seems to have bent the 4th gr selector fork as it regularly jumps out of 4th, I have just been slow to send back to Bara to be fixed as have been enjoying the car, would be great if romain is doing one.
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I wouldn't want to ruin my oppliger box, it cost over Ł5k all in
1800 sounds like you are repaying some of his development costs, I expect that would fall over time.
1800 sounds like you are repaying some of his development costs, I expect that would fall over time.
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#10
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Looks an awesome bit of kit
#13
Price on their website is around $2600 ?
And that's only the shifter, no gear display, and no load cell if you wish to use it in conjunction with your ecu for flat shifting ( which will also need a dog box of some sort as doing it on synchros....wont last long )
Cool product though, and I doubt the price will come down anytime soon, seeing as this is pre-production with units not expected til 2018.
Maybe in 5 years the price will come down lol
And that's only the shifter, no gear display, and no load cell if you wish to use it in conjunction with your ecu for flat shifting ( which will also need a dog box of some sort as doing it on synchros....wont last long )
Cool product though, and I doubt the price will come down anytime soon, seeing as this is pre-production with units not expected til 2018.
Maybe in 5 years the price will come down lol
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Looks a great bit of kit for a track car total ball ache in a road car up up up up down down down fuck that in traffic reason i didnt bother with my opligger
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I run a elite sequential on my cossy powered mk2 , and it's a road car , it's not that bad on the road but noisey, but it's great when you push it through the gears so can see why people would want one , I would
#16
Race day, switch to sequential operation. For road, back to H, just swap the shifter.
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Very good point steve
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It is still a quicker shift even if you are dipping the clutch, it is also novel, fun and interesting. Odd that car manufacturers have always kept an h pattern.
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Also less chance of missing a gear change and damaging a selector fork, been there done that lol.
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It cost me Ł6000 when my friend wrong slotted my 911 with 915 gearbox, he changed hard at around 120/130mph from 4th to 5th, it actually went in to 3rd and buzzed the top end of the engine, pretty much all the valves met all the pistons. He was at fault when borrowing my car but he could not afford to fix it....he made it all right again when he had his own body shop, I got a few free resprays out of him.
#24
There are pros and cons either way. It should be impossible to mis-shift a sequential, but it can be done. And in some respects there stands more chance of damaging forks etc as you might try and ram gears faster with such a shifter as there would be slightly less feel under hand as to whether it wants, or doesnt want to go into gear.
And manufacturers would never offer a mechanical setup like this, as it would be a ballix in normal daily driving, forcing you to go through every gear to get to one end or the other.
It's often nice with an H just to drop it into neutral approaching lights in traffic etc, or just miss the occasional gear when going up or down.
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It cost me Ł6000 when my friend wrong slotted my 911 with 915 gearbox, he changed hard at around 120/130mph from 4th to 5th, it actually went in to 3rd and buzzed the top end of the engine, pretty much all the valves met all the pistons. He was at fault when borrowing my car but he could not afford to fix it....he made it all right again when he had his own body shop, I got a few free resprays out of him.
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Can`t be a goode combination whit helicut gears and normal syncro rings. This kit for mt75 looks interesting http://www.sqsracing.com/files/fs_fi...ial-pic_53.pdf
#27
Whilst true....with a sequential shifter, you then need to remember not to go for an H movement....ie dot hit a downshift when you were aiming for another upshift. So risks still apply.
There are pros and cons either way. It should be impossible to mis-shift a sequential, but it can be done. And in some respects there stands more chance of damaging forks etc as you might try and ram gears faster with such a shifter as there would be slightly less feel under hand as to whether it wants, or doesnt want to go into gear.
And manufacturers would never offer a mechanical setup like this, as it would be a ballix in normal daily driving, forcing you to go through every gear to get to one end or the other.
It's often nice with an H just to drop it into neutral approaching lights in traffic etc, or just miss the occasional gear when going up or down.
There are pros and cons either way. It should be impossible to mis-shift a sequential, but it can be done. And in some respects there stands more chance of damaging forks etc as you might try and ram gears faster with such a shifter as there would be slightly less feel under hand as to whether it wants, or doesnt want to go into gear.
And manufacturers would never offer a mechanical setup like this, as it would be a ballix in normal daily driving, forcing you to go through every gear to get to one end or the other.
It's often nice with an H just to drop it into neutral approaching lights in traffic etc, or just miss the occasional gear when going up or down.
good shout steve
i dont think i could ever live with it in a road car
#28
Mine is just a converted "dog" box...and TBH on the road I really fucking hate it. There's no issue changing gear as such, it just makes everything a horrible clunky bastard most of the time.
Those times when you can drop into neutral are wonderful ! lol. To have to run a sequential....it almost doesnt bare thinking about. At least not on my car.
That said, due to the horrible 4-linked rose jointed live axle on mine...and huge heavy propshaft, those things also exacerbate any nastiness.
When I've a synchro box in the car, it truly is a transformation. That very small amount of slack in engagements the dogs offer, really makes a huge difference on the road to smoothness etc. Synchros are smooth, quiet...dogs are not.
If you'd a much tighter drivetrain, maybe FWD etc, things may not be so bad though.
I currently need a stronger box and had seriously been considering a proper sequential for the performance benefits it could offer...but I'm coming to the conclusion no matter how it might help, I dont think I could live with it in the car given how much I hate my dog box.
That said....I could still consider a sequential shifter at some stage with a new synchro box. At least if I didnt like it, it'd be an easy removal via 4 bolts, although obviously it wouldnt see the full benefits of sequential operation on a synchro.
But I like others, have had the wonderful experience of finding 1st instead of 3rd, and have the destroyed diff and CWP to attest it isnt a good thing.
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#30
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I love the idea of this shifter, my only concern is at high revs and it being a quicker gear change than normal will the synchros actually handle it?
Or are they just gonna get damaged?
Prob fine on a standard ish engine but if your rev limit is 8k plus would it work as well??
I love the engineering of it though, is it just clever mechanical internals doing the shifting?
Cheers Paul
Or are they just gonna get damaged?
Prob fine on a standard ish engine but if your rev limit is 8k plus would it work as well??
I love the engineering of it though, is it just clever mechanical internals doing the shifting?
Cheers Paul
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Oppliger has not released a 6 speed mt75 as far as I am aware although he was suggesting one. Mine is my75 long box h pattern close ratio.
#32
It can only shift as fast as your hand and gearbox allows. It's still all down to your hand etc.
It's just a mechancial setup that changes the fore/aft motion into the motions required to move the box into each gear, via various cams etc.
There was a nice video on youtube where a college student made his own for his Mini, cant seem to find it though. It had good drawings, computer images and ran through getting the parts all cut out etc. Cant seem to find it though
It's just a mechancial setup that changes the fore/aft motion into the motions required to move the box into each gear, via various cams etc.
There was a nice video on youtube where a college student made his own for his Mini, cant seem to find it though. It had good drawings, computer images and ran through getting the parts all cut out etc. Cant seem to find it though
#33
At the pricier end of shifters, for paddle shift on any box, these guys can adapt.
But with air controlling it, yes there is more chance here of "beating" the synchros and causing damage.
But with air controlling it, yes there is more chance here of "beating" the synchros and causing damage.
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Surely you have his sequential boxes and not the oppliger long box mt75 that I have? Are yours truevsequential boxes or sequential shifters on h pattern boxes, it's a big difference.
Oppliger has not released a 6 speed mt75 as far as I am aware although he was suggesting one. Mine is my75 long box h pattern close ratio.
Oppliger has not released a 6 speed mt75 as far as I am aware although he was suggesting one. Mine is my75 long box h pattern close ratio.
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I love the idea of this shifter, my only concern is at high revs and it being a quicker gear change than normal will the synchros actually handle it?
Or are they just gonna get damaged?
Prob fine on a standard ish engine but if your rev limit is 8k plus would it work as well??
I love the engineering of it though, is it just clever mechanical internals doing the shifting?
Cheers Paul
Or are they just gonna get damaged?
Prob fine on a standard ish engine but if your rev limit is 8k plus would it work as well??
I love the engineering of it though, is it just clever mechanical internals doing the shifting?
Cheers Paul
Exactly.
About as much use as a chocolate fire guard when you can beat the gears with the H pattern.
It ain't going to turn the box into grease lightening changes
All the disadvantages and no advantages.
On a different box it maybe great....
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Surely you have his sequential boxes and not the oppliger long box mt75 that I have? Are yours truevsequential boxes or sequential shifters on h pattern boxes, it's a big difference.
Oppliger has not released a 6 speed mt75 as far as I am aware although he was suggesting one. Mine is my75 long box h pattern close ratio.
Oppliger has not released a 6 speed mt75 as far as I am aware although he was suggesting one. Mine is my75 long box h pattern close ratio.
#37
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I love the idea of this shifter, my only concern is at high revs and it being a quicker gear change than normal will the synchros actually handle it?
Or are they just gonna get damaged?
Prob fine on a standard ish engine but if your rev limit is 8k plus would it work as well??
I love the engineering of it though, is it just clever mechanical internals doing the shifting?
Cheers Paul
Or are they just gonna get damaged?
Prob fine on a standard ish engine but if your rev limit is 8k plus would it work as well??
I love the engineering of it though, is it just clever mechanical internals doing the shifting?
Cheers Paul
Is it because they are all on muscle cars that don’t necessarily rev that high?
Cheers Paul
#38
There are tons of them out there, not all are standard and it's another huge market. So why not ? Not all of them will retain the crappy synchros, not all will be high revvers, not all will use clutches that are less friendly to fast shifting
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What gearbox set-up did Ford use on the rally Saffs and the RS500 race cars? Surely they had something which made gear changing smoother and quicker? The T5 is a strong box but has always been less than perfect especially changing up from 2nd to 3rd at high revs.
Last edited by cossynut2; 16-11-2017 at 09:36 PM.