Great video. Thanks for sharing.

 

well just have to open it up and see. but i dont want to do this twice.. so thats why i wanan be on the safe side

 

Does anyone know where I can buy 009 transmissions for cheap? I know people sell them privately on here, just wondering if any vendors or companies keep an inventory.

Thanks

 

This thread was a sticky back when we first made it I think.

As for individual gears, PAR does sell them for other cars (I almost got PAR 3rd and 4th for my car but went with PPG instead) so it's worth looking in to. I contacted PAR about a year to a year and half ago about trying to get a custom 3rd gear made and they said they didn't have any plans at the time to do any 350Z stuff, but maybe they had things in the works then or it has been a more recent development.

 

the didnt answer my mail (PAR)...ill guess il have to mail them again..what did you pay for your gears? i have talked to PPG as well but they said they didnt have anything for me

 

My PPG 3rd and 4th would have been about $1500 without the discount I got through work. Not sure what the exchange rates are doing right now, and I don't have a current PPG price list. My last price list is a Sept 2007 list I think, and it's on a computer that is broken at the moment.

 

Damn thats pricey and then you have to do the install?
I couldn't imagine what it would cost to send them your tranny to rebuild with race gears?

 

Yes, it's not cheap. The full gear set for my car (1st through 4th and the input shaft) is like $4600 and then of course you have to pay for installation which will probably run you another grand if you can't do it yourself. I work at a race transmission shop and it's what we do all day every day so there are definitely people out there willing to do it. Either that or you can just pay almost a thousand bucks every year or whatever because you keep breaking gears and have to get a new trans or get your existing trans fixed, and have to deal with having your car out of commission for however long it takes to fix it.

To me it's a no-brainer. I didn't get 1st or 2nd because I'm not making the kind of torque required to break those, but I was breaking 3rd or 4th ever few months and I'd much rather pay the money up front and have peace of mind than pay later and more importantly, worry every time I floor my car that I'm going to break it yet again. It made having a car with as much power as I had not fun, it was just stressful every time I pushed it.

 

Response from PPG Transmission in Australia via e-mail: I inquired on a 350Z gearbox upgrade.
Mike,
We CAN make these for you and we have dimensioned a sample gearbox ready to do this job.
We require a 5 set minimum order to go ahead. The boxes are complex and as a full 1st to 6th dog set they would cost about $11,000aud each. Which is about $7K USD.
Regards, Tim Possingham.

 

GREAT... i wonder why they didnt answer me..

i wonder what the shipping would cost.. group buy??

 

Don't know about shipping but would be expensive for the most part...but that wouldn't
stop me. Lets see if there is any interest and go from that. I can call Forged and see what Sharif
thinks too.

 

asap =) finally some light in my tunnel hehe

 

Unless you're building a full time race car, a fully build up dog box is totally unnecessary overkill. Not to mention it would wine like a motherf-er. 7 grand, when all we are really trying to do is strengthen the weak point in the stock trans (3rd gear)??? No thanks...


EDIT: I had a brain fart this morning. If the new gears are STRAIGHT CUT then it will whine like crazy, if not then it will just have harsher engagement (dog cut gears replacing synchros).

 

the wining is no problem att all.. just cool =)

yes oh course 7k is alot. but when we are talking 4500 for just one gear.. then 7k for all 6 is a nice price

 

I'm interested.

 

Had a buddy with a Jericho trans in his viper (thats the same trans they run in Nascar), with straight cut gears and what not.......

Whine is an understatement lol. Don't know how much better dog gears would be. And his, if you missed a shift.....yea you were pulling over and starting from a standstill (no synchros), could never get the perfect rpm again to hit a gear from a roll lol. But when you didn't miss a shift, damn it was a fast shift.

 

I bet we could find a place willing to make a stronger stock replacement 3rd gear for a reasonable cost. 7 grand is insane. Especially since most of the trans is just fine....

 

yes of course this isnt my first option.. but im afraid for now its my only.. i am most defenitly open for more suggestions

 

I don't think anyone said anything about $4500 for just one gear, at least I didn't. It's conceivable we could get something going for a few hundred bucks.

 

PAR Engineering was $4200 for the complete gear set.