who would be interested in built transmissions?

Boosted_da · Post by **Boosted_da** » Fri Jan 07, 2011 4:57 am

to start off a flash back to the early 1990's the 5.0 mustang community was thriving with new found power as they were braking into the 11's in street car form. but they were equiped with a T-5 transmission wich was ill fated as they often could not hold up to the power (previous to the tremic trans) untill rennie chartrand came along and started modifying the T-5 so it could with hold the power. well times have changed and he has asked me to test the territory of building honda trans (ie like a jon shepard of hondas) so as a question to all. who would be interested in having his services? if enough people are interested he will make a go of this!

v-tecivic · Post by **v-tecivic** » Fri Jan 07, 2011 5:00 am

would it be any honda transmissions or does he want to stay specific to a motor series i.e. d,b,h, or k series? im currently looking into a lsd for my setup. im just not too sure about messing with any gearing changes.

Boosted_da · Post by **Boosted_da** » Fri Jan 07, 2011 5:01 am

he would be looking into all honda trans more or less right now were just testing the waters

2ksi · Post by **2ksi** » Fri Jan 07, 2011 5:59 am

i would love this to happen.

Boosted_da · Post by **Boosted_da** » Fri Jan 07, 2011 6:07 am

yeah but im going to need more responses if this is going to happen im not going to waste this guys time

2ksi · Post by **2ksi** » Fri Jan 07, 2011 6:52 am

its late at night and no one is on. bump it in the morning. did you post this on stlimports? that might help. and also try em1crew.com

twkdcd595 · Post by **twkdcd595** » Fri Jan 07, 2011 1:56 pm

Boosted_da;253147 wrote:to start off a flash back to the early 1990's the 5.0 mustang community was thriving with new found power as they were braking into the 11's in street car form. but they were equiped with a T-5 transmission wich was ill fated as they often could not hold up to the power (previous to the tremic trans) untill rennie chartrand came along and started modifying the T-5 so it could with hold the power. well times have changed and he has asked me to test the territory of building honda trans (ie like a jon shepard of hondas) so as a question to all. who would be interested in having his services? if enough people are interested he will make a go of this!

Would be interesting to see what he can provide for services and the cost of it. Is he talking just services like assembly or some manufactured parts as well? The problem I see is cost, there would be tons of interest if it was a reasonably affordable service.

Currently just a sync'd 1-4 gearset from the handful of quality aftermarket manufacturers is going to run you a few thousand or more... thats just for the parts, add in a final drive, maybe a billet case or handcuff, assembly, etc. Things can add up quick.

Look around national forums for a few minutes and you can see there is alot of people looking for upgraded transmissions.

99BlackHatch · Post by **99BlackHatch** » Fri Jan 07, 2011 2:18 pm

twkdcd595;253166 wrote:Would be interesting to see what he can provide for services and the cost of it. Is he talking just services like assembly or some manufactured parts as well? The problem I see is cost, there would be tons of interest if it was a reasonably affordable service.

Currently just a sync'd 1-4 gearset from the handful of quality aftermarket manufacturers is going to run you a few thousand or more... thats just for the parts, add in a final drive, maybe a billet case or handcuff, assembly, etc. Things can add up quick.

Look around national forums for a few minutes and you can see there is alot of people looking for upgraded transmissions.

Chad is correct... I've had a few trannys repaired and rebuilt. Rickles and RyanA normally did the work. I currently have 1 tranny that needs a fresh rebuild before i throw it into the hatch. I would be purchasing the carbon coated synchros and the replacement gears.

Y21 trans with Honda OEM LSD = Fun.

And for those of you that thinking a rebuild won't help...

My old B16A Civic hatch...
before the rebuild, I always got 15.3 @ 91mph
after the rebuild with Gearspeed synchros I got 14.8 @ 93mph and didn't change anything to the car, just the trans. Cutting off 1/2 a second brought a smile to my face and was worth the few hundred dollars.

luvmyhondas · Post by **luvmyhondas** » Fri Jan 07, 2011 7:46 pm

there are tons of Honda folks out there looking for the 'ultimate' solution in built trans. personally, I'm not to that point yet.

mike93hatch · Post by **mike93hatch** » Fri Jan 07, 2011 9:50 pm

luvmyhondas;253185 wrote:there are tons of Honda folks out there looking for the 'ultimate' solution in built trans. personally, I'm not to that point yet.

and there are already many many solutions out there. whoever this guy is and if he decides to dump 100k in to getting the ball rolling on something when there are already tons of companys that sell gearsets that are already trusted then he is going to lose a lot of money.

and btw, carbon coated syncros are nothing special. basically no different from a stock syncro. although from all my experience they tend to start making grinds.