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> Someone bought a sweet 914-6, 3.6 and boxster tranny
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post Mar 18 2004, 03:33 PM
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914/6 3.6 ... Sold

I'm curious about the Boxster tranny.

Anyone from the club???

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post Mar 18 2004, 04:15 PM
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Maybe they push start it??? It is a race car!
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post Mar 18 2004, 04:31 PM
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I knew that car long ago when it was still stock.
Don't know about the conversion parts but may be able to find out.
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post Mar 18 2004, 05:19 PM
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I'd like to see some shots of the engine/trans setup. Thats a sweet car, but I wonder why they didnt go with a different trans. Why the boxster? I understand its a mid engined trans and 6 speed and stuff, but arent there porsche racing transmissions that are better equiped for race cars? With 75 grand in the car, I wouldnt think they would skimp anywhere...
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post Mar 18 2004, 06:48 PM
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Thats a sweet car, but I wonder why they didnt go with a different trans


"Porsche racing transmissions"????? huh?? AFAIK, they are all based on a production transmission

I dunno, different or better ratios?

the "other" 6-speed transmissions do not allow for easy (or at all) ring and pinion flipping???

Unless there is something "wrong" with the Boxster transmission, they made a good choice since it's a proven transmission and it's being run in the correct orientation that it was designed for.

I don't see it as a hard conversion to do, expensive for the average person, but if you can measure, cut, fabricate and weld, it's not that tough.........just from looking at a Boxster transmission at a quick glance, I'd say cut off the bellhousing and weld one the bellhousing from an air-cooled transmission. The problem with this method is down time and being able to make another or have one on hand if one breaks the heavily modified unit.
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post Mar 18 2004, 07:08 PM
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Did the 935, 956, 962, and GT1 all use production transmissions??? If so they were out before the boxster, so did porsche use a racing trans in a mass production boxster? I agree the boxster tranks is probably more then sufficient, Im just curious.

I guess a 962 produced a LOT more HP and had MUCH different gearing then a 996...
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post Mar 18 2004, 08:19 PM
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Is it just my computer, or is the layout of that webpage a pain in the ass? I could only see half the pics even though they took up less than half my screen width?
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post Mar 18 2004, 08:44 PM
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I agree. It's a PITA viewing that page. You can download the images though and then run them through your favorite picture viewer. I'd rather see engine/tranny pics.
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post Mar 18 2004, 08:54 PM
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I don't see it as a hard conversion to do, expensive for the average person, but if you can measure, cut, fabricate and weld, it's not that tough.........just from looking at a Boxster transmission at a quick glance, I'd say cut off the bellhousing and weld one the bellhousing from an air-cooled transmission.


Mike; did you ever try this? The bellhousing has to be perfectly perpandicular to the pilot shaft or the clutch will chatter when engaged. I owned a car that was hacked and know from experience. I wouldn't recommend it for a DIY'er. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif)
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post Mar 18 2004, 09:30 PM
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The pictures have a slider bar at the bottom to scroll over to the right to view the other part of the picture
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post Mar 18 2004, 09:34 PM
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I'm highly interested to see if it actually had a Boxster tranny in it. I dont physically see how they could have done it without 5-8k in fab work on the tranny.



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post Mar 18 2004, 09:34 PM
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Webpage says its a 5 speed. Don't know if i would go through all that just for gear ratios.......6 speeds would be cool though....someone else should spend a wad to do it, and then let me know how it works (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
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post Mar 19 2004, 11:26 AM
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DaveP, if you can get some info, i'm really curious about the tranny setup!!!

(Like everyone else!) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

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post Mar 19 2004, 01:25 PM
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Yep... I posted this a while back that I met some PCA boys coming back from the Mosport racetrack. They were telling me about a teen with a 993 engine in it ...well I guess this was the unit.
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post Mar 19 2004, 03:08 PM
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Mark,

You could ask Galloway about Swain's car. He might know more about it.
Nice oil cooler from the RX7, wish I had looked at it while I was there.

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