TRE - Taller 5th Gear

[ExTREME]

Bring your car to one of the local sponsor shops (one has much lower labor rates than pretty much any place in the Cities) and I'm sure they can do your tranny removal/installation for a decent price.

The taller 5th gear is a great idea, it'll improve MPG and save wear and tear on your engine.


I live no where near the TC area brother. I live in the boonies, 1 mile from SD border. I would love to bring it into a Sponsor shop but I can't truck it down. I was just hoping to get an estimate of what someone else has had theirs done for. They wanted 360$ for the R&R. I gotta save my money. I'm trying to build a reliable DSM..

[Kracka]

Do it yourself then, its really not too tough, just take it slow and label everything.

[Hoffer00]

I live no where near the TC area brother. I live in the boonies, 1 mile from SD border. I would love to bring it into a Sponsor shop but I can't truck it down. I was just hoping to get an estimate of what someone else has had theirs done for. They wanted 360$ for the R&R. I gotta save my money. I'm trying to build a reliable DSM..

How much are they doing for you. Are they just pulling the tranny ad doing the work, or are they reinstalling it to.

If they just do the pull off and rebuild that is about 3 hours. If they put it all back together it is more like 5 or 6.

[ExTREME]

They're just pulling the old one out, putting the new one in along with a clutch and flywheel, I'm supplying the New trans and the fluids.

I did alot of the work myself, disconnected all the hoses, wires, sensors, everything but the axles and the DS. Thats where I got stuck and confused and I do not have the tools to do it. I gave up.

I dont know..
-SA

[ExTREME]

^ and the Clutch and Flywheel.

[JET]

The drive shaft comes off with the T-case, just 17mm bolts and the same size is used on the suspension (if it's a 1g, you don't say).

[Shane@DBPerformance]

They're just pulling the old one out, putting the new one in along with a clutch and flywheel, I'm supplying the New trans and the fluids.

I did alot of the work myself, disconnected all the hoses, wires, sensors, everything but the axles and the DS. Thats where I got stuck and confused and I do not have the tools to do it. I gave up.

I dont know..
-SA

Most shops don't want to work on a car that someone already started working on and aren't going to offer a discount when a car comes in half torn apart.

[Thor06]

Going from 3000 to 2760 would never yeild 7 mpg increase. I cannot imagine that it would really affect your milage more than 1 mpg, thats only a 250 rpm difference at 3000 rpms. Completely not worth it IMO.

[Andrew7dg]

Going from 3000 to 2760 would never yeild 7 mpg increase. I cannot imagine that it would really affect your milage more than 1 mpg, thats only a 250 rpm difference at 3000 rpms. Completely not worth it IMO.

I think it depends on how the car is setup. If it is made for high revs and dogs in the lower RPM then no, but if it is a 2.3L stroker then a taller gear would be ideal.
It also wouldn't be worth it if the car is making stock HP i would think. I would think the engineers would have put the 5th gear in the most efficient range. In this club though most cars are making good HP so that would throw off the calculations.

I would love to see a data log of a before and after the gear installation to see how the car is running. To measure by tank there are a lot of variables. I have had my car running in the 27 all the way down to 21 on highway depending how I am driving:D

[1ViciousGSX]

Most shops don't want to work on a car that someone already started working on and aren't going to offer a discount when a car comes in half torn apart.We don't like doing it either. It becomes the "who is responsible for what" argument.