May just be crazy but why is the damn transmission so pricey to build? My buddy spent about a thousand bucks to get a new strengthened fourth gear fork, all new bronze fork pads, and strengthened keys for his synchros in his T56 and we took it apart and put it back together. Took about a week to do and was definitely a good learning experience. He now has a stage 2 trans that sells for about 2400 dollars from some company idk its name but paying 6 or 8000 dollars for parts to build our OWN transmission just seems absolutely ridiculous.

Obviously their is plenty of people wanting to build a turbo s2000 and their would be MANY MANY more if you didnt have to fork out so much damn money to make it reliable for a somewhat sane price. I'm seriously contemplating just keeping mine stock and build a 9 second talon or something of that sort for about half of what it would take to build my s2k and not be breaking parts left and right. I understand that the s2000 has more rare of a transmission than say a t56 or likewise but should that really make the parts that much more expensive?

I'm thinking about contacting a company that builds transmissions and having them take a peek at the problem we are running into, its worth a shot I guess. If nothing else the main problem for our transmissions seems to be second gear and the reduction gear, why not put a beastly second and reduction gears inside, give it a whirl, and see what breaks next and after how much power?

Just trying to get something solved with this I read in the thread before Inline Pro was going to make a cheaper solution but then read 6000 dollars. Yeah that is 2000 cheaper but that price difference should be about what we should expect to pay in the first place through my eyes. Just my 2 cents.

Brendan

 

Im with you on this. Its absolutely ridiculous what ppg charges. I hope you find a company that will do it for a better price. I could see $3-4k but $6-8k is just insane.

 

if you can find a company that makes a stronger tranny for 3-4k i WILL buy it from you..

this is an opportunity to form a successful business for the s2000 community

 

reliable and 9 second car shouldnt really go in the same sentince

the s2k trans is a fantastic transmission, theres a reason its more expensive to build it than a T56

 

I don't see what that reason is though which is why I'm going to contact a company about this. I could understand if the gears were mad out of a different grade metal but then you could make them out of a heavier stronger metal idk I just don't get it. Yeah it's a Honda transmission but that ahouldnt make the gears inside more expensive. And don't get me wrong I understand their isn't such thing as a reliable 9 second car but at the same time I don't want to have my butt hole pucker in fear everytime I feel like doing a second gear pull


Brendan

 

supply and demand. how many guys honestly are gonna buy a built tranny and build a 9sec s2k, heck even a 10 sec s2k? there are way more t56 tranny'd cars running big HP/TQ then s2ks. not too mention, the s2k tranny was designed for a whimpy 150wtq. it handles that admirably. heck, even 300-350tq it can handle. 100+% over what it was designed to handle!

PPG built something that they prolly sell what, 15 a year if that. i wouldnt waste my time engineering/manufacturing something that low of production if i wasnt gonna make a killing on it either.

that said, i am in for a 3-4k option, for those just in case moments. i dont make enough power, so if i break mine, prolly gonna go with a used replacement, but 3-4k for a new built one, yeah, i might jump on it

 

^^

costs incurred from research & development + enginnering & manufacturing > gross profit for a handful of units

It's apples to oranges when comparing domesticly manufactured transmissions that are applicable on a wide variety of platforms to the s2000's, which already has an extremely limited market from the factory.

 

I'm listening... If this goes through count me in!