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Originally Posted by reallyxxxxxxloud
If we used straight cut gears on 1 2 and 3 (yes can be a little noisy) wouldn't this stop the need for the plate? Isn't the torque load on the gears thats causing the shalfs to move busting the housing? Don't hurt me I'm only little  ... |
In theory, yes, straight cut gears would have much less side-loading than the stock helical cut gears, however....
There is only ONE current option for straight cut gears and it's only for 1st gear. This is from SCE and it's still not exactly available yet. It includes a straight cut, longer 1st (similar to 1st in a 1st gen 5-spd TT) and a semi-helical 2nd that is between the new 1st and the stock 3rd. It also includes a faceplate dogbox conversion for 1st through 4th IIRC, and the whole thing will be in the $3-$4k US region, so that vs. $300 for the bellhousing reinforcement...
Of course, if you have an inside line on a tranny builder that will build a dogbox with straight cut gears... I DO happen to know that there is a well-known Aussie company that has built straight cut dogboxes for Evos and WRX's, but no one else has yet done the ground work for a 3/S tranny
Max