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On that note, in preparation for Nats, I took the time to install my Calimer-spec GForce Engineering gearset-equipped "MT82" - which really only resembles the original in external appearance; the only stock pieces remaining are the case and flange. Everything inside is trick, as previously shown and described in posts above.
New tranny and old 3.55/giken case waiting to mate up. First installation I've ever done with the help from a lift - already missing not having one myself!!
Out with the old, in with the new! Extra fun, super expensive SRF fluid included for scale. And here I thought OS Giken 80W250 broke the bank!!
Proof for @Rexpelagi that, yes, it *WAS* in fact a McLeod RST clutch/pressure plate/flywheel installed - and that *HE* got it wrong with his installation
Initial impressions are very positive. Shifting has never felt more deliberate and smooth. Gear whine is definitely present in-town, but it sounds like a proper race car now, increasing in pitch as revs increase. Disappears at higher speeds on the highway, FWIW. Also diminished a drivetrain vibration I've been chasing for over a year - which I completed eliminated through trial-and-error rotating and adding a worm clamp to the driveshaft near the flange (things that I tried and failed to solve the problem completely previously).
All of this, of course, does very little to enhance my chances at Nats - but (hopefully) adds a little bit more reliability to the equation after thrashing on my completely OEM MT82 for almost (4) seasons. What it really does, though, is complete the picture for power that awaits to be mated (literally) the day after Nats. Is it 2019 yet?!
New tranny and old 3.55/giken case waiting to mate up. First installation I've ever done with the help from a lift - already missing not having one myself!!
Out with the old, in with the new! Extra fun, super expensive SRF fluid included for scale. And here I thought OS Giken 80W250 broke the bank!!
Proof for @Rexpelagi that, yes, it *WAS* in fact a McLeod RST clutch/pressure plate/flywheel installed - and that *HE* got it wrong with his installation
Initial impressions are very positive. Shifting has never felt more deliberate and smooth. Gear whine is definitely present in-town, but it sounds like a proper race car now, increasing in pitch as revs increase. Disappears at higher speeds on the highway, FWIW. Also diminished a drivetrain vibration I've been chasing for over a year - which I completed eliminated through trial-and-error rotating and adding a worm clamp to the driveshaft near the flange (things that I tried and failed to solve the problem completely previously).
All of this, of course, does very little to enhance my chances at Nats - but (hopefully) adds a little bit more reliability to the equation after thrashing on my completely OEM MT82 for almost (4) seasons. What it really does, though, is complete the picture for power that awaits to be mated (literally) the day after Nats. Is it 2019 yet?!
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