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Originally posted by Big Gordy
Your right Sweeney
Standard cogs are machined in a helix a bit like the large gear on the right hand end of your picture. The purpose of this is to ensure a smooth transition between each gear at change time and a quiet gearbox:approve: A straight cut gear is a lot stronger but the down side is that they 'whine' a lot:dead: To be fair its usually only guys racing/rallying that I've seen them in before where a whiney gearbox is the least of their worries
Alan have you had a look at a guy called Jack Knight's website:question: He's one of the first guys to do a mass produced 8 port head and a 5 speed box for the old 'A' series engine (as far as I know:I) There's loads of books on tuning the 'A' series engine.....a guy Steve Visard springs to mind. I can't remember the standard box being known as the weak link but I understand that with the work your doing to it it would be silly not to look at the box while you were at it
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bet ya got a lot of catching up to do
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