favourite gearbox

cybersdorf · 16 Aug 2005, 18:03 (Ref:1383882)

The 2-speed automatic on the Caparral 2D was quite impressive.

How about a similar thread for every imaginable racecar component?

RobertPrange · 16 Aug 2005, 18:06 (Ref:1383885)

uhm...your kidding right?

**Adam43** · 16 Aug 2005, 18:12 (Ref:1383889)

Ones without flappy-padley things. I believe they also require the use of something called a clutch.

Also any that last 24 hours or take over half anhour to change (as impressive as it is to change one quicker).

Ones with a proper Ferrari gate.

The Moss 'boxes on the '50s Jags are quite interesting and have a bit of character.

Happy Snapper · 16 Aug 2005, 18:12 (Ref:1383890)

Quote:

Originally Posted by cybersdorf

The 2-speed automatic on the Caparral 2D was quite impressive.

How about a similar thread for every imaginable racecar component?

I like the ZF 5 sped in my old rally car, slow but effective,but I was really impressed with the 6 speed ultra close ratio sequential shift gearbox in the race renault clio cup car I had a test drive in last year

BSchneiderFan · 16 Aug 2005, 23:20 (Ref:1384124)

Always quite taken with the sequential shift that Porsche tried in the 956 or 962 - Hans Stuck used it in the Supercup in the mid-80s, but the other Porsche drivers didn't like it - but then I like innovation and clever engineering.

Mind you, I think this thread was started with a tongue firmly in a cheek.

19dodge · 17 Aug 2005, 00:09 (Ref:1384157)

well, i always liked those xTrac gearboxs that always broke on the Konrad Saleens

**skycafe** · 17 Aug 2005, 01:50 (Ref:1384213)

It was a sad day when the end came for power transmision via leather belts!

Also, how can a gearshift be self respecting if it isn't an arm-length long, made out of steel, and mounted outside the coachwork? I had hopes when I heard about a 'tractor lola,' hoping that the transmission would be Massey Ferguson and the driver would need two hands to yank it into the next gear. Forget electronics, go for brute force and steel.

modifica · 17 Aug 2005, 02:07 (Ref:1384221)

DSG!!!!

Spiteful · 17 Aug 2005, 13:58 (Ref:1384665)

The 956 thingie was a double-clutch system I believe...
I'm still hoping for ZeroShift to revolutionize the world of gearboxes
http://www.zeroshift.com/pdf/RcarN6V15_Zeroshift.pdf

lj79 · 17 Aug 2005, 16:45 (Ref:1384816)

The PDK gearbox, as it was called by Porsche, was not exclusively used in Supercup.
It was used in the 86 SPWC by Bell and Stuck. And indeed the #3 Rothmans car used it at Le Mans that year as Bell and Stuck went manual. I like the noise it made when upshifting.
It was used at Jarama and Jerez in 87 too by Bell and Stuck but by the Monza race that year the conventional box was used such was the concern at Weissach at being leathered by the Jags.

Who made the gearbox for the Group 44 Jags and Lancias at Le Mans 84. I was only young but it broke my heart when the lead Lancia had to have its box rebuilt and even moreso when the Redman Jag retired due to a gearbox failure - was it Hewland?

Don't know anything about gearboxes, so acknowledge the tongue in cheek from Cybers...but would like to know who built thise gearbxoes which broke my 13 yr old heart at Le Mans 84

**Adam43** · 17 Aug 2005, 17:49 (Ref:1384868)

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Originally Posted by BSchneiderFan

Mind you, I think this thread was started with a tongue firmly in a cheek.

Oh yeah and that makes it even better to discuss it

The Badger · 17 Aug 2005, 20:00 (Ref:1384941)

Favourite gearbox ..... one that lasts 25 hours

TheNewBob · 17 Aug 2005, 22:24 (Ref:1385149)

I say throw out auto's and paddle shifts - nothing quite like a proper manual 'box! I vow never to buy an auto-box road car

Now let's have a thread on everyone's favourite wheel nuts

**skycafe** · 18 Aug 2005, 00:01 (Ref:1385193)

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Originally Posted by TheNewBob

Now let's have a thread on everyone's favourite wheel nuts

Hans Stuck hands down as my favorite (behind the steering) wheel nut!!

TheNewBob · 18 Aug 2005, 12:55 (Ref:1385517)

Quote:

Originally Posted by skycafe

Hans Stuck hands down as my favorite (behind the steering) wheel nut!!

Oaksnaf · 18 Aug 2005, 13:15 (Ref:1385531)

Quote:

Originally Posted by skycafe

Hans Stuck hands down as my favorite (behind the steering) wheel nut!!

He went nuts at Nurburg in that BMW of his.
And he just couldn't get the best out of those Kuchen engines in his AFM.... kept on blowing up.

The Badger · 18 Aug 2005, 13:31 (Ref:1385542)

Red nuts or blue nuts ?

Oaksnaf · 18 Aug 2005, 13:37 (Ref:1385545)

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Originally Posted by The Badger

Red nuts or blue nuts ?

Whatever colour they were, they were large. Im not one for knowing the colour of another mans nuts.

**skycafe** · 18 Aug 2005, 14:29 (Ref:1385580)

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Originally Posted by Oaksnaf

He went nuts at Nurburg in that BMW of his.
And he just couldn't get the best out of those Kuchen engines in his AFM.... kept on blowing up.

Was this in the SUV? I remember reading that they were building one of the SUV's (sorry, I don't know their model numbers) with I think one of the prototype v12 engines that was laying around, to go set a lap record at the 'Ring! Did they ever do that, and if so can someone point to a web link about it?

Send him up Pikes Peak next!

robert

Oaksnaf · 19 Aug 2005, 06:55 (Ref:1386030)

Here is a pic:

cybersdorf · 19 Aug 2005, 10:08 (Ref:1386170)

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Originally Posted by skycafe

Did they ever do that

Yes they did.

stefan · 19 Aug 2005, 10:17 (Ref:1386180)

How about the DAF continuously variable transmission? It's pretty clever.

And it's got rubber cones in it

**skycafe** · 19 Aug 2005, 12:47 (Ref:1386315)

Quote:

Originally Posted by cybersdorf

Yes they did.

And did they set the record they were looking to set?

Happy Snapper · 19 Aug 2005, 13:14 (Ref:1386347)

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Originally Posted by stefan

How about the DAF continuously variable transmission? It's pretty clever.

And it's got rubber cones in it

Nope rubber belts and steel cones?? was used in rally cross when we were trying fergason 4 wheel drive on the big capris for Clarke a couple of mad dutchman put BDA engines in the middle of the car and four drive through the daf system when like *&it off a shovel well quite fast!!

stefan · 19 Aug 2005, 16:34 (Ref:1386489)

steel cones, ice cream cones - I'm not picky - I just like cones

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