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Quaife gearkit ford mtx75

There is a guy on NECO who races his Cougar in the Canadian Touring Car series, and I'm pretty sure he has one in his race car. His screen name is 23Racer.

I wouldn't ever wish to drive a car with straight-cut gears in regular traffic.
 
Andy Bennett said:
There is a guy on NECO who races his Cougar in the Canadian Touring Car series, and I'm pretty sure he has one in his race car. His screen name is 23Racer.

I wouldn't ever wish to drive a car with straight-cut gears in regular traffic.
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yeah, straight cut forward gears on a street car is a bad choice. they will be extremely loud and annoying.



BTW, OP if you are looking for a Quaife LSD send me a PM.
http://www.contour.org/ceg-vb/showthread.php?69238-TZT-Performance!
 
Screee! - klunk - Screee! - klunk - Screee! - klunk... Yeah, that would be fun in a street car. :rolleyes:

That gearset is open face dog engagement, it's not synchronized. Yes, you could upshift without using the clutch, and you could downshift by just dipping the throttle and leaning on the gear lever, but it would not be pleasant to street drive.
 
Didnt say I was buying this for my car....I just got curious to see if anybody was using these in their track cars or whatever. I wouldnt spend $3200 on my CSVT....it would definately go into my Stang's Alumastar wheels and Wilwood brakes to complete the mini tubbed badazzness. lol
 
Haha no doubt. I have tried PMing Josh on here...no reply....I always have to contact him on facebook through his personal or PRT account. lol
 
Believe me, straight cut gears and dog rings are NOT for the street. After racing everything from sports racers to formula cars and everything in between, dog ring gearboxes are for racing only. The life of the dogrings may be 2500 miles if you're lucky. When they start wearing it gets easier for the gearbox to pop out of gear under hard acceleration as the dogs get rounded off. Every time you upshift or downshift you must match revs or double clutch, if you don't you will probably hear the sound of the gearbox shredding everything under the hood when it explodes, been there done that. Dogrings are for positive engagement eliminating the synchronizers and the fragile brass blocking rings. Stick with the factory transaxle.

FGM
 
CSVTFGM said:
Believe me, straight cut gears and dog rings are NOT for the street. After racing everything from sports racers to formula cars and everything in between, dog ring gearboxes are for racing only. The life of the dogrings may be 2500 miles if you're lucky. When they stary wearing it gets easier for the gearbox to pop out of gear under hard acceleration as the dogs get rounded off. Every time you upshift or downshift you must match revs or double clutch, if you don't you will probably hear the sound of the gearbox shredding everything under the hood when it explodes, been there done that. Dogrings are for positive engagement eliminating the synchronizers and the fragile brass blocking rings. Stick with the factory transaxle.

FGM
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Well said Frank, so $3,200 for 2,500 miles = $1.28 per mile...good luck to whoever buys it...
 
Quaife does make a synchromesh gearkit with with helical cut gears for cheaper. for those who want the close ratio gears but dont want a straight cut gears with dog engagement.
http://www.quaife.co.uk/shop/products/qke28z

If anyone is actually interested in that kit let me know and I can quote you a price on it as it is something I can get.
 
Now thats what I am talking about!! lol Yeah I didnt even know the kit I found on ebay was straight cut gears until Smalls said that. But regardless....I wouldn't spend that much on my CSVT anyhow. Good info on here guys!! Thats why I love this site.

So does any racers have either of these gearkits in? And holy crap a 4.85 gearset!!!!!!! Talk about some wicked lowend in one of these cars......they already have a hooking issue. lol Be fun on the roll though! Be a sweet roadcourse gearset...short straightaway track....come outta the corners like a rocket.
 
I looked into it. Actually contacted their US distributor who quoted me more then what it would cost me to buy it directly from their UK webpage. However if I was to spend that much money I would look at retrofitting the Mondeo 6spd trans into my car before I would change out the gear set in the MTX-75.
 
6 speed was significantly weaker if the chatter I've heard is to believed.

now I was under the impression you could get custom gear ratios with the quaife... cross fingers, lotto winning thinking, would love a gear set specifically for top speed.
 
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