Your dream transmission.

[Keliente]

Scenario:

You are swapping your incredibly crappy CD4E out of your 2002 Cougar, which is allowing you to build a new manual transmission from the ground up practically. Money isn't really an issue...You are starting with an mtx-75....what kinds of aftermarket parts are you using, and why?

[ov3n]

2001+ model mtx75 for the upgraded parts it contains from older years
Fidanza flywheel - lighter than stock, faster revving
centerforce dual friction clutch - good grip, will handle lots of power and abuse.
Quaife LSD - essential upgrade to any mtx-75. makes the car handle 100x better than stock

That's about it for me.
I have no real need for strengthened gears etc which would be HELLLLLLLA expensive.
No need for a zetec final drive. Slowing down the car is NOT the answer to keeping traction

[exigent]

Oven is the man.... :)

I just want to add that Leo Capaldi still has 4.5 final drives.... screw fuel econemy... buy some sticky tires and make that baby FASTER! :)


Id just like to comment on all those people of questionable logic with the zetec gear... umm... do any of you have sticky tires? Um... have you even considered that the tires you have are probly 90% of your traction problems? Oh... go over to the focus board and read about they money the spend to put OUR STOCK FINAL DRIVE in there zetec tranny....

[Kinger]

I WILL prove all of you wrong as soon as I can find a track that the zetec gears are the way to go ONCE YOU HAVE THE POWER TO USE THEM.

If your still running slow azz 2.5's with no extra puff then you can't comment :tongue:

[ov3n]

But still.. You're putting a taller gear in your car.. which means its not gonna be as fast as it possibly can be.. do you have the stickiest possible street legal tires?

[Kinger]

Originally posted by: ov3n
But still.. You're putting a taller gear in your car.. which means its not gonna be as fast as it possibly can be.. do you have the stickiest possible street legal tires?


Right it will be faster, top speed is estimated at 178 on mine minus the drag coefficent speed drop. Think of a ten speed bike, put the chain on the smallest cog and pedal as fast as you can, you don't move very fast, now have Lance Armstrong pedal as fast as he can, guess who is faster. Same principle more power can turn the smaller (taller) gears just as fast translating into more speed. I also can wait longer between shifts (especially with a 7500 rpm redline) again going faster. With the zetec gears and the config of SC 3L starting to build boost at 4K I have very little wheelspin at launch, when it hits 5000 rpm that's when the tires break free, but I'm already moving.

Also I don't give a hoot what capaldi runs ITS A DAMN RACE CAR, not a street car so quit with that example.

I'm not going to start a debate I will prove what I say once I have the time slip and will hopefully be outrunning the turbos with stock gearing.

[TheGreatOne]

Lightened flywheel or aftermarket light weight unit

spec stage 1 (NA) or stage 2/3 for forced induction cars - i would lean towards the 3 if that's the case - they are all cheaper and have higher tq ratings than centerforce.
Do not use the stage 2 with a fidanza!!!

Focus shifter tower/selector forks (will greatly smooth out shifting)

Quaife or torsen lsd, whichever you can get cheaper

other than that, make sur eyour syncro's and stuff are in good conditoin and you should be set. I just did the quaife/lightened flywheel/spec stage 2 myself and am very pleased with the results.

EDIT: And i would go about changing gear ratio's unless you are definitley supercharging/turboing your car.

[Jorgen]

don't everyone be forgetting trans mount inserts (i think you have to poly one because they don't make an insert for it but maybe that is the rear motor mount not rear trans mount.... eh may as well tighten everythgin up in there if the trans is out anyway

[TheGreatOne]

you can gut the stockers and fill them with windoweld....this is already on my to do list.