gearbox stuff

[Fish]

I want to move from an external slave cylinder to an internal hydraulic throw out bearing on my W55 box. Anyone got a contact or someone who has done this. The reason being we have very little room for an exhaust at the moment to run past the gearbox and body :S

Or is it as simple as buying this kit and fitting it or is it a bit more than that.

[rolleraction]

Excellent thread. I also was very interested in this to remedy some issues with 3SGE to W57 box. I emailed these guys
http://www.alloyrace.com/

No reply.

I called them & left voicemail detailing my query and what I wanted to buy.... no reply. ..
Must have way too much business that's all I can say...

A little off topic, but keen to see what exactly is involved...

[Fish]

yeah i am doing the smae thing. 3sge with a w55 behind it but in a gemini

[rolleraction]

Cool. What diff ratio? Can you get a W57, better ratio's..

[JP]

There's info on a concentric slave setup for the W58 here:

http://www.v-eight.com/tech_forum/vi...php?f=40&t=630

Ed's drawn up the CAD file for it which is available for $20US

http://v-eight.com/images/Images_For...apter_0001.jpg
http://v-eight.com/images/Images_For...apter_0002.jpg

[rolleraction]

Thx JP. that's the part that I was searching for.... +rep 2 u

[ViPeR_NiPPleX]

My dad's running the same thing on his gt40 replica. Works a treat.

[Fish]

Calling Ed to this thread.

[Fish]

Cool. What diff ratio? Can you get a W57, better ratio's..

3.9 the W55 has a 3.57 first gear but am lookin at a albins gearset

[willwal98]

what do you do when it leaks?

[merc-blue]

you will need to do both you master and slave sizes correctly,
You need to get the right slave to suit your inputshaft and clutch,
Fab a adaptor to the nose of your box (if a off the shelf slave isnt available.)

deffently use a pedal stop and be very careful with your bleeder setup. i will post more info when i have more time.
but ALL our cars run them and there are a real PITA until you get them right.

[Fish]

THANKS MERC BLUE.

im expecting not mych lefted over from $1000 after talking with my parts mate today

[cambelt]

Whats the diff in pedal feel , Id imagine they need a bigger master , but then theres no fulcrum as with a folk , Pedal harder ??
Dave

[o_man_ra23]

Plenty of talk regarding 3S's here, which have exhaust on passenger side, where W5x's have clutch slave on driver side. And you say you have exhaust issues?? How difficult would it be to move the slave cyl to the opposite side?? (I assume you are using a 1G). Brett_Celicacoupe didn't have any trouble fitting the exhaust of his 1G-GTE into his RA40, he even managed to squeeze a power steering box in at one stage, but decided against using it. Maybe you just need to route your exhaust better?? As this seems to be a very expensive PITA when there surely must be a simpler and cheaper solution which will still look good and not hamper performance.

[Fish]

The position of the slave cylinder all depends on the bell housing used. I am running a 2s bell housing and its on the passenger side.