For those who are interested in a high performance Transaxle, but could not afford a Quaife or RBT your search will be over soon.
Chris Melia past on some info last night concerning the new Quaife sequential shift tranaxle. In his e-mail he stated "I was at the Quaife factory last week, and the new trans is due out in November 02 at £6500 $9750 less 20% discount for units ordered before November. This unit has the same bolt pattern as the ZF DS25/2 so a ZF bell housing will fit but Quaife can also provide the bellhousing.
In addition to the above you will need to think about the shifter, the quaife shifter is £900 $1350 the drawing below is hot of the drawing board, and it shows the trans to be three inches shorter than the MK One Quaife unit at only 23" long and 9.9" across the drive flanges, they say that it is designed to take at least 550 BHP.
I think it has to be the best prospect for a GT40 trans and at this price its got to be a bargain."
Seeing the price at below $10k and well below $8k if you order before November will be great. I am not sure why one might buy a refurbished ZF for on the order of $7k with something like this available. I also wonder what shifter options we could develop as the $1300 price tag for that seems a bit out of my range. I know you can also add a gear indicator to the dash so that you know what gear you are in. The few cars that I have driven with sequential shift have worked quite well.
For what it is worth I am in no affiliated with Quaife, just want to see this make it in several higher HP GT40's.
[ July 18, 2002: Message edited by: CCX33911 ]
Chris Melia past on some info last night concerning the new Quaife sequential shift tranaxle. In his e-mail he stated "I was at the Quaife factory last week, and the new trans is due out in November 02 at £6500 $9750 less 20% discount for units ordered before November. This unit has the same bolt pattern as the ZF DS25/2 so a ZF bell housing will fit but Quaife can also provide the bellhousing.
In addition to the above you will need to think about the shifter, the quaife shifter is £900 $1350 the drawing below is hot of the drawing board, and it shows the trans to be three inches shorter than the MK One Quaife unit at only 23" long and 9.9" across the drive flanges, they say that it is designed to take at least 550 BHP.
I think it has to be the best prospect for a GT40 trans and at this price its got to be a bargain."
Seeing the price at below $10k and well below $8k if you order before November will be great. I am not sure why one might buy a refurbished ZF for on the order of $7k with something like this available. I also wonder what shifter options we could develop as the $1300 price tag for that seems a bit out of my range. I know you can also add a gear indicator to the dash so that you know what gear you are in. The few cars that I have driven with sequential shift have worked quite well.
For what it is worth I am in no affiliated with Quaife, just want to see this make it in several higher HP GT40's.
[ July 18, 2002: Message edited by: CCX33911 ]