[Peter Olliviere]

One of the things that really distract from the pleasure of driving the car was the 016/5N. The gearing was just a pain in the A** when driving on the street. When used on track days it ws not that bad especially with the peaky motor that did not get out of bed till almost four grand.

We all know the choices of tranny, so no need to go into that here, what I needed to figure out was what was the path of least resistance to get good gearing into RF80. Adapting a ZF was out due to cost, time and changes that would need to be made to the frame. Porsche 930 and G50 is the same thing as the ZF. I decided to get hold of one of the 3.22 gear sets and have that installed. When you look at the gearing table adding the 3.22 ring and pinion to the 5N does end up with a very usable overall gearing. No I still can't do five grand clutch but do I really want too?

Here is a shot of the cleaned up tranny with the 3.22 and LS.