Hi All

I have been waiting for the denoumment of this thread over on Pelican. Check out the later posts re boxster S tranny installation.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/showthread....815#post1390815

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Shifts like a Honda... Better! Short, very positive throws. No more crunches. 0 to 60 times cut by 5 seconds (shifting time). The gears are perfect, too. 5th and 6th are great cruising gears.

Everything I had hoped for. No cutting in the trunk required.

Now it accelerates great, corners great, stops great and (drumroll please), shifts great!
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I now have a new goal for my car.

Sweet! Will it hold up to a V8? I'll need something to replace my 901 eventually. What's your 75 mph RPM in 6th?

I would like to see how much $$ you have spent on this conversion..

That looks like it was pretty expensive, but judging by the look of your car, that didnt hurt to bad

I must ask, how your rear flares where made? I can only guess that it was by forming new sheet metal and then welding it on.

They look very nice

(and simular..)

Call me a sceptic, but I'll believe it when I see it

cheers,

Jeroen

Sounds very cool!

The only thing I guess I'm curious about is the 0-60 times. The 3.0 conversion car I built a few years ago (and sold) would do 0-50 in a fudge over 5 sec. I don't know how you could shave 5 sec off a 0-60 time, which I don't remember. It was a little more than you'd expect though, as 2nd gear topped out at 57 MPH and the rev limiter.

PK

ps very, very nice work

it looks like they did what I said needed to be done: cut the bellhouseing and weld on a new one.


nice install, very nice car......

I wouldn't get too excited, it's going to be an expensive modification, I'm guessing the transmission plus the modifications to "bolt it right in" to our cars is going to be in the 3k to 4k range, if not more.

I'd like to see the rear of the car, does the transmission get in the way of where the mufflers goes?

Too bad he lives so far away, it would be nice to see this car in person

Ok, I'm a believer



cheers,

Jeroen

Well crap, now I have yet ANOTHER forum to read

Hell, for that kind of money I'll build my own with my trusty MIG welder...doesn't look that hard!




ah...hahahahaha just fuckin' with y'all

when i saw the price-

this is what i planned on doing....I tried to buy a boxster transmission on eBay a few weeks ago, thing only went for $200 !!!!

it needed some work, but for that price, it would have been worth it for a little R&D

average price now for boxster S transmissions are in the 2K range, this guy might have bought a brand new unit, figure another $1000-$1500 to "convert" it to bolt-onto an air-cooled engine, I can see this being cost effective if you converted 5 or more transmissions at a time, that way the costs of everything can be split up.

not sure how good these would be for V8 cars, I thought I had read that the gears are pressed onto the shafts and do not use splines like our transmissions....this could be only for the standard Boxster and not the "S".... ????