first proper drive
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took my car out last night and today with new gear box from simon(morspeed), ended up going complete sccr gearbox with sc drops, x pin diff and 3.1 final drive, sounds awsome now, runnin really quick, booked in for tune friday, cant wait to get it bedded in so the boost can go up, gonna motor i think,

thanks simon for sorting me out saturday if u read this, much appreciated, will pop up this sat.

SC/CR box and 3,1 diff?? That must be totally horrible. How is it off the line?

Why horrible?!! Mr MiniWilliams runs a 2.9:1 CWP and thats not slow!

Hannibal: There are two ways we can do this: the easy way and the hard way. In a few minutes my friends and I are going to come down on you like your worst nightmare. You're gonna wish the Earth had opened up and swallowed you whole.
bad guy: What's the easy way?
Hannibal: That WAS the easy way.

With a tall SC first gear and the 3,2 first gear must be like 3 on a standard Mini. I haven't calculated ratios yet...
Slow off the line and maximum top speed are two different things..

Obviously top speed would be fantastic if the engine mangaged to pull to 7K rpm in top.

I ran a 3.2 with a SC gearkit and 1:1.04 drop gears.

1st was a pig to get rolling, but I could do 50mph! Theoretical top speed was 152 mph :)

With 126bhp at the wheels (from Baldwins RR) my car was fantastic - in the pub

drives absolutely fine from what i can tell, not launched or anything yet as im bedding engine in, was told this is best to go for with 13" wheels and it being sort of a daily driver aswell as a few drag runs, can nearly stall it off line if you dont give it enough revs, does just about 1 gear change to 60 though aint that good enough? guy i took it to be tuned says that its pullin around 130, 135 bhp at the mo. think he used his g meter.

3.1 will be fine, my mates 1380 NA runs that set up with no probs, and will give a good kick through the gears. if you have loads of grunt then make the most of it .

always looking for them bigger bunches of bannanas

what ratios you running giallofly if you dont mind me asking : )

How much was the gearbox in total? Whats the best ratio for a standard engine and boost? 3:2?

Previous Engine: 1040cc Morespeed engine, 1275 turbo head T2 Turbo Mirage Manifolds Megajolt
Previous engine: STD metro turbo, megajolt
Drives: 399bananahp (flywheel) Honda Civic Vtec b18c4 T28 Turbo 1968 Mini

Megajolt maps to download: http://www.jamesfawcett.co.uk/cms/index.ph...&gid=3&Itemid=3

my gear box from simon at morspeed was ?1000 including a x pin diff and straight cut drops i thought this was bloomin cheap, and ITS buy no means cheap. every thing inside is brand new, well chuffed with it, simons a top bloak. my ratios work lovely with 13" wheels, sits nice all round, little bit tall in first but buy no means a problem, 3.2 is the crown wheel/pinion ratio.

Edited by miniman on 15th Mar, 2005.