306GTI-6 gearbox in my 16V
TD 5th gear wasn't it Dan?
Calculating gearing is pretty easy once you reaslise what your trying to achieve, though i think if i had a 6 gear box there would be way too much to play with and too hard a decision to pick the cogs (all out speed, comfort cruising, waste a cog at the bottom to give a longer 'first', waste a cog at the top for motorway cruise), then again nearly all the PSA cars i have driven (and thats most of the current ranges bar C4+C6) are really in need of totally different setups and i always seem to be looking for a 6th gear.
Ford have it much better though, the old S-reg age transit doesn't have enough power to get to 5th gear so you never need anything more Oh and the new transits that do have the 6th gear absolutley fly but you can pretty muh drive them in nothing but the 6th gear, clever ford
christ did i just say that
Calculating gearing is pretty easy once you reaslise what your trying to achieve, though i think if i had a 6 gear box there would be way too much to play with and too hard a decision to pick the cogs (all out speed, comfort cruising, waste a cog at the bottom to give a longer 'first', waste a cog at the top for motorway cruise), then again nearly all the PSA cars i have driven (and thats most of the current ranges bar C4+C6) are really in need of totally different setups and i always seem to be looking for a 6th gear.
Ford have it much better though, the old S-reg age transit doesn't have enough power to get to 5th gear so you never need anything more Oh and the new transits that do have the 6th gear absolutley fly but you can pretty muh drive them in nothing but the 6th gear, clever ford
christ did i just say that
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Yes Mike modified the 5th gearing on his 5 speed BX box to drop the revs a little for motorway cruising.
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Luke
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1989 BX 16valve White 70k almost up to scratch
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You could probably make a very usefull combo doing that whitty - IIRC the 6 speed box has a lower FD than the mi so fitting the mi Fd then using the first 5 as a std mi box then a nice low 6th gear would be great to give the car that quick punchyness in the first set then once into 6th nice nad relaxed for cruising.whitty_zx wrote:i'd like to do this sort of thing with the be3/6 i.e first 5 gears as is now in the normal be3 thats in the zx then have 6th set to relax the engine for cruising/motorways ect
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Luke
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1989 BX 16valve White 70k almost up to scratch
1989 BX 16valve White 70k almost up to scratch
Changing FD is not rocket science by any way,
It's all a straight swap, if You are unsure, find a broken or cheap box, dismantle it and You'll see it not that hard.
If You decide to swap it, call some of Your mates so they can help You get the box out, or any local garage can do it for You. You can do the swap thingy by Yourself.
Here are gbox ratios:
http://www.track-monkey.co.uk/downloads ... osGti6.xls
Cheers
Ziga
It's all a straight swap, if You are unsure, find a broken or cheap box, dismantle it and You'll see it not that hard.
If You decide to swap it, call some of Your mates so they can help You get the box out, or any local garage can do it for You. You can do the swap thingy by Yourself.
Here are gbox ratios:
http://www.track-monkey.co.uk/downloads ... osGti6.xls
Cheers
Ziga
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Nice! IF it really makes a difference let me know, perhaps I'll try the same!whitty_zx wrote:ive got a spare 5 cog from a zx and i have gti6 box so id like to make 1 good one out of the two and then change the sixth gear to make a cruising gear
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