I'm getting a car this spring and the R is mainly going to the track and auto-x. I am looking into getting one, but I was wondering on manufacturers (JDM) and if it's really even worth my time. I saw the post on the Takakaira SS but I didn't know if that was the only one available. Any tips on installation? And if so...how fuQin hard will it be?

PS…As dumb as this question sounds…you still use the clutch as normal right? So heel-&-toeing is still good, correct?

(Any pics would be great)!

- B


[Modified by 401-2001, 8:53 PM 1/1/2002]

 

Sequential?? There is no clutch.

Oh and I heard a sequential tranny is like 60,000 CDN <----Tranny is for an actaul race car, not street car.


[Modified by mr. skelly, 6:27 PM 1/1/2002]

 

check this out
it's pretty cool http://www.takakaira.com/php/template.php3?id=185&cat=2

 

CART cars have Sequential shifters but also have clutches. F1 cars have no clutches, and the transmission does the shifting for them. I think a SS for the R is huuuuge bucks though.

 

their about 15-20k dollars
all the big guns in japan have em.....silvias, skylines, evo's ect....

 

skelly

Then what is this guy doing?

http://www.takakaira.com/performance...a/shifter.mpeg

 

Ross...Actually it's $1,200

 

someone told me that quaife can make custom sequential trannys for almost anything.... around $15k?

 

Hmmm ok so some do have clutches. I never watched cart. I watch F1.

Bah as in a clutch you don't actually have to operate yourself is what I mean.


[Modified by mr. skelly, 6:27 PM 1/1/2002]

 

F1 cars do have clutches. AP racing supplies most of the teams with the clutches. And the transmissions don't shift for them. They have the option to run an auto tranny but most of them still use the sequential paddle shift transmissions.

 

At least on formula 1 cars, there is a clutch, but during normal operation it is operated by computer controlled actuators. There is a hand clutch for starting/pitstops/spins and whatever else because the price for a stall in F1 is so high. The F1 gearboxes are now (since spanish GP) fully automatic. This is a lot like the Magneti-Marelli systems on the ferrais, and Aston Martin vanquish, and I'm sure a few other cars. Oh, and the BMW SMG system. I'm a newbie, but I really like F1. The new European DM BMW M3 SMG (that's a lot of letters to describe a car) even has an F1 style launch control.

 

So basically, I'm going to pay out the ***, right? Does anyone have one?

 

http://www3.yomogi.or.jp/formula/

 

CART cars do have a conventional foot clutch that is needed to shift gears. I am pretty sure that the engine/tranny does the rev-matching itself, since I have never seen a CART driver heel/toe.

F1 cars have a hand-clutch which is used only for starting the car. Once in motion, the tranny takes care of the rest - when the lever is pulled, as in the Ferrari 355/360 F1, the engine rev-matches itself. When traction control/launch control was re-introduced at the Spanish GP this year, so were FULLY automatic gearboxes.

 

the page you listed uses oil pressure to operate the the clutch instead of your leg.