Originally posted by Phil Rohtla:
The SVT Focus 6-speed is strong enough (same tranny as in the Mini Cooper S and the Works edition w/200hp), but why would you want to do this? You're sounding like you want to spend a bunch of money on a mechanical piece with no functional reason (like going faster) to do so.





I don;t think so...see your mesuring everyhting in HP...when transmissions are mostly judge by there torque rating......Though it may be used in the mini cooper s, I to have read stories and have seen the 6 speed get blow (my friends SVT focus). Though it wasn;t power that blew my frineds up but a mis shift....He wanted to go to third but wne into first...it was only a split second in first, and he pushed the clutch back in....at the same time it wasn;t fast enough and hear a "POP" or a "bang" and the tranny went dead. Snapped the diff and it shot through the bottom of the trans.


I ahve misshifted in my MTX 75 before with nothing like this happened (before i did the re-build). Now im not saying this is true for all of them, and this is not directly related to the subject at hand, but because of this situation, i feel that it would be a weaker transmission for our cars than the mtx 75. If you can find some articals on the matter that prove that the 6 speed is reliable in our cars the please by all means show us. If you can't, well you can't. But all my experience comes from seeing directly what happened....and reading about the FSVT.


Roz

3.0 SVT hybrid...all the fixens...Track/Race ready very soon!!!!!! 20,000 + miles