[Red Lion]

good research work, thanks for that. but quit googling and start making traction rods

They be coming! I have to get official vendorship here before I'm allowed to sell to all of you...

And Phantom Grip is kind of, well, better than nothing, but not really worth it. Mike Kojima said it was better than nothing, but nowhere near as good as say Nismo, Cusco and other high dollar diffs. The Maxima boys love those Quaife's!

 

[allblackedout111]

^who is stopping you from becoming a vendor? I'll kill them.

 

[mad hatter]

I'll back you up.

 

[Red Lion]

Lol ease up guys, don't get me banned. The admins just told me I have to become a paying vendor before they'll allow me to sell anything to all of you here, which is why my traction rod threads have been moved temporarily. They'll be back, soon. End of discussion, don't take this thread any more OT please.


And just to keep this thread on topic, here's some pics of Jose's gear set:

I hope he doesn't mind me posting those here because that is a very beautiful set up he has going on.

 

[allblackedout111]

^oh the hotness

And i'm just sayin red, if we need to roll out on some homies, you know, bash some heads and stuff, we got your back.

Oh god i'm sleep deprived...i'm talking nonsense. But it made me laugh so whatever

 

[eclypse]

hah, you have issues. one day i have to link you to a thread on the local racing forums where a guy in an rb20 skyline was talking shit and at one point said "i got 2 9s tappin ends if u wanna tri"

it was retard comedy gold.

back to trannies - yea Jose's setup is insane. he's got more $$ in that than i have my house in the last 5 years though. I'm not even trying to bring my shit to his level. I'd be better off putting the $ and time into a Nova and running it into the 8's

 

[allblackedout111]

^yea, but that wouldn't be as cool as a 10 second altima.

and yea i got issues, mainly i'm just an incredibly sarcastic person but its hard to get that across on forums.

 

[eclypse]

yea thats true, there's been hundreds (arguably thousands) of fast Nova's. never been a 10 second altima

 

[mad hatter]

Found this while browsing the Quaife website. Not sure if you wanna pay $12k for a tranny though...
FWD 6-speed sequential universal gearbox - Quaife Engineering

 

[eclypse]

not unless they're sponsoring me or i start another shop and can write it off against it

 

[Red Lion]

Hey Eclypse, something I forgot to mention:

The 02+ Altima 5-speed gear box, for both 2.5 and 3.5, is coded RS5F50, the same as our old 5-speeds (and the same code as the 91-99 Maximas). If I were you, I'd search around the 3.5 forums and see how their 5-speeds are holding up.

One thing to note is that in 2000 Nissan, for whatever reason, decided to beef up some of their gear boxes on the FWD models. The 2000 Sentra with SR20DE has a MUCH stronger 5spd than the old 91-99 Sentra 5spds (they had larger gear stacks, more/stronger teeth, etc.). Maybe the later model Altima boxes aren't any different from ours, but maybe they are?

 

[eclypse]

Hey Eclypse, something I forgot to mention:

The 02+ Altima 5-speed gear box, for both 2.5 and 3.5, is coded RS5F50, the same as our old 5-speeds (and the same code as the 91-99 Maximas). If I were you, I'd search around the 3.5 forums and see how their 5-speeds are holding up.

One thing to note is that in 2000 Nissan, for whatever reason, decided to beef up some of their gear boxes on the FWD models. The 2000 Sentra with SR20DE has a MUCH stronger 5spd than the old 91-99 Sentra 5spds (they had larger gear stacks, more/stronger teeth, etc.). Maybe the later model Altima boxes aren't any different from ours, but maybe they are?

thats why i asked about B15's, cus they were beefed in 2000. interesting/good point about perhaps the same was done to Altimas. that would be extremely good news indeed. i wont have time to research this til this weekend but that may be a good lead. if its made to hold 3.5 worth of power (and im sure they accounted for probable bolt ons to an already popularly modified motor) that'd suggest our trannies have promise to at least the 300whp area.. and if not the same manufacturing process, we have a direct gut swap of options that ARE reliable to that level..

hell if thats true then some cryo/shot peen should beef these things up to 400whp.

 

[itwillrun]

Hey Eclypse, something I forgot to mention:

The 02+ Altima 5-speed gear box, for both 2.5 and 3.5, is coded RS5F50, the same as our old 5-speeds (and the same code as the 91-99 Maximas). If I were you, I'd search around the 3.5 forums and see how their 5-speeds are holding up.

One thing to note is that in 2000 Nissan, for whatever reason, decided to beef up some of their gear boxes on the FWD models. The 2000 Sentra with SR20DE has a MUCH stronger 5spd than the old 91-99 Sentra 5spds (they had larger gear stacks, more/stronger teeth, etc.). Maybe the later model Altima boxes aren't any different from ours, but maybe they are?

I know the 2000-01 hold more but if the 02 3.5 uses the same one than my thoughts would be they can handle atleast 350whp which would be nice.