As some of you know I purchased Joeys old PPG Dogbox and am waiting to recieve it from Evans Tuning. My car will be at the track occasionally but is mainly built for the streets. Ive been told over and over agin not to Drive my car with that transmission on the street for any kind of "lengthy" distance because its hard on the gears. So Im at a loss... Should I sell it and go V160? Or sell it and get a few oem transmissions? My power goals are 800-850.

 

This is a good watch from PPG:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_1jO64tuQA#t=249 They don't mention length of drive time, but they seem to think its perfectly fine for the street and mention that they put in work to make it useable on the streets.

Are you concerned about "lengthy" distance as in driving 300 miles on a highway? Or do you mean an hour commute each way in city traffic?

 

We have a local with a Subie who drives hers on the streets. As far as i know, she has no problems.

 

Most people that tell you you can't drive one on the street has either never driven one period, or just doesn't understand how they work. Whenever anyone refers to "straight cut" gears and street driving, just ignore anything else that comes out of their mouths.

It absolutely can be driven on the street. I drove mine for season on the street.

Very informative video.

 

I mean if im taking a few hour drive to a meet or something. This will absolutely NOT be my daily. I've just heard a lot of bad things about driving them on the streets and how it wears them out faster ect.....

 

I'd say that video from PPG should calm some of your fears about street driving. I think the problem with people driving them on the street is you just notice all the noises and clunks and jolts more than you do at the track since you aren't focusing on going fast. And since people notice them more they figure its hurting the gears, etc. Or they start overthinking how they should be shifting to not hurt the gears, and they just end up doing something that hurts the gears worse.

A friend of mine has a dogbox in his WRX that he daily drives. I think he has straight cut gears in 1-4 too, cause it whines something fierce down low. It might be a bit annoying or uncomfortable at times, but such is the nature of any built car on the street.

 

I was legit just going to post that same video as well. People dont know what they are talking about. You can drive a dogbox hectical or straight cut every damn day if you want. Some people say you cant drive a comp twin also and I LOVE LOVE LOVE driving mine to meets, to the track, whatever.

Just take what people say with a grain of salt. I listen to what everyone says... but very few peoples opinions are actually fact when it comes to this car stuff.

 

GREAT advice.

 

Straight cut gears have NOTHING to do with drive ability or shifting, just noise.

The PPG gearset for the s2000 is helical anyways so that point is moot.

 

I run a Quaife sequential with straight cut gears, it's noisy and crude but fully usable on the street.