Does anyone know of any companies that produce a six speed or a sequential six speed box?
If not then, I have spoken to quaife and if there is enough interest then they would be willing to produce some. It would have to be a min of 5 and would cost around £3000, which is about $5500 to produce.
Anyone instserested?

 

I'll throw in a K series before I fork out 5500 for an engine of old technology.

 

Are you talking about making a kit that will turn my 5spd Prelude into a 6spd? If so,

 

When i spoke to them they said that it would be a box ready to go. You would simply have to fit it.

 

i'm assuming it comes with a quaife already installed, correct?

if so then it really only costs about $4450, still a **** load. but it would be a completely brand spankin new tranny. i'd really think hard about this, especially if the price could drop another 500-1000$.

 

also can you choose exactly what ratio's you get?

 

When i spoke to the guy he told me that the price could well be lower depending on the amount of interest and how much of the box is interchangeable ie if parts could be used from other boxes.
Being quaife the box will be able to handle alot more power.
I cannot see a problem with choosing your own ratios as it would all be made to order anyway.
I was looking into buying a new box for my kit car so that i could get a new licence plate and the cost of a box is £1800.

 

even if the price could be dropped to 5grand even WITH shipping, its gonna be real hard to find enough people interested in doing this. but damn that'd be sweet as hell.

 

If it was bulletproof, I would drop 5 g's on it. And Im sure alot of pros would too because we all know the h trannys suck.

 

If ever there was a car that needed a 6th gear, its the prelude.

I cant tell you how many times I've been doing 75-80 already, and thinking I was in 4th. Love the ratios for zipping around, it just needs that last highway gear.

 

while they are making adapter plates to fit b-series trannys to an H22, so with the right upgrades you could rev to 10k rpm....... For a fraction of that? Personally its not worth it...

 

This is exactly what Preludes need. Too bad that's waaaaaaaaay out of my price range. Although you would save a little money afterward in gas. And we all know how much that means nowadays.

BTW, I'm pretty sure you can't swap a K-series into a Prelude without makingn it RWD.

Dan

 

5000 for a custom transmission from quaife isn't that expensive at all. throw in a diff and custom ratios and it's actually quite a bargain. Previously the numbers thrown around for such an item were more akin to 20,000.

but yeah, good luck finding people with 5000 bucks

 

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exactily. 5500 for a transmission. you've got to be kidding me. maybe if i owned a ferrari f430 and my tranny died on me, then i would justify spending that much on a tranny but on a h22/3? that is rediculous.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by eMpAtHy &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">exactily. 5500 for a transmission. you've got to be kidding me. maybe if i owned a ferrari f430 and my tranny died on me, then i would justify spending that much on a tranny but on a h22/3? that is rediculous.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Plenty of people drive around $25,000 civic hatchbacks with serious gear in it.

If my car was purpose built racecar, and in a class where tranny mods were open, i'd seriously think about buying one of these.

 

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Plenty of people drive around $25,000 civic hatchbacks with serious gear in it.

If my car was purpose built racecar, and in a class where tranny mods were open, i'd seriously think about buying one of these. </TD></TR></TABLE>

Seriously. And as for drag racing. Think about how many huge hp pros just destroy trannys after 10-20 passes, even if they get them for $500, you would still spend more than that in a season, and since quaife warantees their stuff even for racing, you know it would be stout. And think. A quaife runs oh like 1g now, install is like 3-400 and a new h tranny is around 1g,custome ratios $?, a rebuild would be 1000-1500, so you ar looking at at least 3500-4000, for a new rebuilt tranny, I would deffinatley drop the 5g's, that is a huge bargan.

 

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BTW, I'm pretty sure you can't swap a K-series into a Prelude without makingn it RWD.
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it's already been done.

 

The Prelude does need a 6th gear for the highway, but for 5500 its just not worth it.

 

Guys, $5500 for a sequential 6 speed tranny isnt that bad. In Japan, HKS, Trus and OS giken all make aftermarket trannies for GT-R's, silvias and RX7's. The OS giken makes a 3 gear set, and a 5 gear set. They are close ratio hardened gears with a hardened titanium input shaft. They just now started making dogmissions too. HKS and trust have been making Dogmissions for a while now. Cost brand new is about 5G's. Would you spend 5G's on a sequential dogmission that will never break and will cut a second off your ET? if you are a serious racer its a viable option. FYI, OS makes gearsets for Honduhs too. check out the link.

http://www.enonvativforce.com/close_gear.htm

Neil

 

i don't think this is sequential, i think those are the ones that are like 18g's.

 

yea, both the trust and HKS are standard patterns. OS makes a sequential dogbox for about 10G's.

neil

 

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If my car was purpose built racecar, and in a class where tranny mods were open, i'd seriously think about buying one of these. </TD></TR></TABLE>

i'd see it being worth it if you were a serious road racer and competing...that's the only place i think it would be worth it..

 

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i'd see it being worth it if you were a serious road racer and competing...that's the only place i think it would be worth it..</TD></TR></TABLE>


yea, thats for sure. In my case, the tranny is now the weak point on my 7. If I keep breaking trannies I'm going to havew to get something. I could probably get by with the Os gearset. Same with most on this forum. The one OS gearset was only 900 bucks!! 900 bucks for hardened titanium inputshaft and gears. Plus they are shorter, close ratio gears.

neil

 

its one of the only mods that will make your car faster, help save gas, improve traction, make your car handle better, doesn't need to be tuned, and increases the overall reliability of your car. hell it seems like a bargain!

if i had a job I'd probably fork over the cash, but being a full time student it wouldn't be too smart for me right now.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by AzCivic1.6 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">its one of the only mods that will make your car faster, help save gas, improve traction, make your car handle better, doesn't need to be tuned, and increases the overall reliability of your car. hell it seems like a bargain!

if i had a job I'd probably fork over the cash, but being a full time student it wouldn't be too smart for me right now.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Good points. You can easily spend that much on visual stuff, I guess its a matter of whats important.

If there was a bulletproof 6 speed for this car, I'd consider it.