Ba Mk1 Transmission Options

[Ralph Wiggum]

if you read the original post you will see one option under consideration was to spend $8000 on a manual conversion.....hence the fact i said to sell up and buy a BF with the gearbox he wants, $25000 + $8000 = $33000, should be enough to get into a 2nd hand 6 speed manual me thinks.....who said anything about buying new??

makes sense to me

dont forget the transfer fees...theres an easy 3 or 4 g depending what state your in.......

[alphamike]

Considering the manual option (and the but say $8000 cost) arose from the potential for repairing the existing box getting hexxy in the first place...

IF the repair was a couple of grand... add more to fit a transmission cooler etc to prevent a repeat... etc etc then you've spent a goodly chunk of money, still have the same gearbox, and may run into the same problems anyway. That being the case, if it's only a few grand more for someone like Mal Woods to 110% fix it, guaranteed, then it's worth a look.

Heading to a BF is not a bad option but I think the extra cost would sink it for me. The reasoning is basically an extension of my own so I can hardly fault it. Aside from which, I'd pretty much have to spend the coin to fix this one anyway before selling it... which past experience tells me would not add value:

me: Oh, and the gearbox has just been seen to

buyer: What was wrong with it?

me: Ah, this and that... um... it needed....

buyer: So you thrashed it?

me: Look, a little, but only on Sundays really. It IS an XR6T!

buyer: [walking]

I'll chase up some quotes on getting the original box seen to, sounds like it might not be that much, then spend the saved cash on an edit... which will tick a few other "boxes" as well. My association with manual gearboxes will, for the time being, stay unsatisfied (except for the one on my fireblade!).

So the next question: where to take it?Trawling the forum has given me the name of Protrans in (caringbah?)... any other Sydders places worth asking to take a look at it?

Edited 28/06/07 12:40 AM by alphamike