This is my first post on here as I have only just bought an unfinished Tornado kit, and I would be grateful for some good advice from you guy’s to point me in the right direction.
As mentioned before the car is a Tornado 40 and it comes with a part built Ford 302, I have read the build manual and Tornado recommend using a Renault 21 Turbo gear box for the best gear ratio’s, the only problem is that I cannot find a Renault 21 Turbo gearbox, but I can find plenty on other Renault 21 gearbox’s and I have spoken with a local company that recon they can rebuild the gearbox to match the gear ratio’s to the Turbo version, has anyone else had this done and will the gearbox stand up to the engine ? also does anyone know of a company that make a bellhousing to join the Renault box to the engine that does not cost the earth, I do know about using a Renault 30 bellhousing and making an adaptor plate but I cannot find any of these box’s either.
Chris
As mentioned before the car is a Tornado 40 and it comes with a part built Ford 302, I have read the build manual and Tornado recommend using a Renault 21 Turbo gear box for the best gear ratio’s, the only problem is that I cannot find a Renault 21 Turbo gearbox, but I can find plenty on other Renault 21 gearbox’s and I have spoken with a local company that recon they can rebuild the gearbox to match the gear ratio’s to the Turbo version, has anyone else had this done and will the gearbox stand up to the engine ? also does anyone know of a company that make a bellhousing to join the Renault box to the engine that does not cost the earth, I do know about using a Renault 30 bellhousing and making an adaptor plate but I cannot find any of these box’s either.
Chris