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From: Trollywood
i was looking at transmissions the other day, because i was interested in the z33 trans as we have about 3 of them lying around. at a glance it seems the bell housing is much too large to fit the tunnel. then i looked at an FD trans. it looked similar in width but its a 5 speed and i was told it doesnt hold a huge ammount of power. then there was the v160 supra 6 speed. those are known to hold what ever you throw at it. the size was very similar, but the cost is still very high. another option would be the trans from an e46 m3 i guess...
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The Z33 trans will fit. It's not that much different to a Nissan skyline r33 gtst gearbox, which I have one in my s2k.
The nissan bell house was chopped and welded to a cnc billet plate in the shape of the font 1/2 of the s2k bell house. It was done this way because the first trial the weld between the honda s2k and nissan bellhouse broke and costed me a bomb to replace the damage bits. The shop blamed on the s2k cast material rather their welding. You will need a nissan clutch + custom flywheel to mate the f20c to the nissan clutch.
If I do it all over again, I would probably use the supra 6 speed gearbox.
The nissan bell house was chopped and welded to a cnc billet plate in the shape of the font 1/2 of the s2k bell house. It was done this way because the first trial the weld between the honda s2k and nissan bellhouse broke and costed me a bomb to replace the damage bits. The shop blamed on the s2k cast material rather their welding. You will need a nissan clutch + custom flywheel to mate the f20c to the nissan clutch.
If I do it all over again, I would probably use the supra 6 speed gearbox.
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The Z33 trans will fit. It's not that much different to a Nissan skyline r33 gtst gearbox, which I have one in my s2k.
The nissan bell house was chopped and welded to a cnc billet plate in the shape of the font 1/2 of the s2k bell house. It was done this way because the first trial the weld between the honda s2k and nissan bellhouse broke and costed me a bomb to replace the damage bits. The shop blamed on the s2k cast material rather their welding. You will need a nissan clutch + custom flywheel to mate the f20c to the nissan clutch.
If I do it all over again, I would probably use the supra 6 speed gearbox.
The nissan bell house was chopped and welded to a cnc billet plate in the shape of the font 1/2 of the s2k bell house. It was done this way because the first trial the weld between the honda s2k and nissan bellhouse broke and costed me a bomb to replace the damage bits. The shop blamed on the s2k cast material rather their welding. You will need a nissan clutch + custom flywheel to mate the f20c to the nissan clutch.
If I do it all over again, I would probably use the supra 6 speed gearbox.
Why would you go with the supra 6 speed? What would it take to use that?
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The Z33 trans will fit. It's not that much different to a Nissan skyline r33 gtst gearbox, which I have one in my s2k.
The nissan bell house was chopped and welded to a cnc billet plate in the shape of the font 1/2 of the s2k bell house. It was done this way because the first trial the weld between the honda s2k and nissan bellhouse broke and costed me a bomb to replace the damage bits. The shop blamed on the s2k cast material rather their welding. You will need a nissan clutch + custom flywheel to mate the f20c to the nissan clutch.
If I do it all over again, I would probably use the supra 6 speed gearbox.
The nissan bell house was chopped and welded to a cnc billet plate in the shape of the font 1/2 of the s2k bell house. It was done this way because the first trial the weld between the honda s2k and nissan bellhouse broke and costed me a bomb to replace the damage bits. The shop blamed on the s2k cast material rather their welding. You will need a nissan clutch + custom flywheel to mate the f20c to the nissan clutch.
If I do it all over again, I would probably use the supra 6 speed gearbox.
If you could do it again what do you think about using the most of the s2k housing and as little of the z33 trans as possible? keep the stock flywheel/pressure plate/throw out/pivot arm etc and just change to a nissan spline disc.
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The Z33 trans will fit. It's not that much different to a Nissan skyline r33 gtst gearbox, which I have one in my s2k.
The nissan bell house was chopped and welded to a cnc billet plate in the shape of the font 1/2 of the s2k bell house. It was done this way because the first trial the weld between the honda s2k and nissan bellhouse broke and costed me a bomb to replace the damage bits. The shop blamed on the s2k cast material rather their welding. You will need a nissan clutch + custom flywheel to mate the f20c to the nissan clutch.
If I do it all over again, I would probably use the supra 6 speed gearbox.
The nissan bell house was chopped and welded to a cnc billet plate in the shape of the font 1/2 of the s2k bell house. It was done this way because the first trial the weld between the honda s2k and nissan bellhouse broke and costed me a bomb to replace the damage bits. The shop blamed on the s2k cast material rather their welding. You will need a nissan clutch + custom flywheel to mate the f20c to the nissan clutch.
If I do it all over again, I would probably use the supra 6 speed gearbox.
I like the Supra box as well but rare and expensive over here, Z33 would be much better if it could handle the abuse.
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Do you hear of them blowing them up often? Cause I havent heard of it, I know the earlier ones had a synchro issue or something along those lines but nothing major. Those guys don't have gearsets made for them, or have different transmissions swapped into them so I would assume they are pretty happy with what they have just like the supra community.
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http://www.supraforums.com/forum/sho...d-transmission
this was one of the links I had been looking at referring to them blowing up, but I also saw quite a few saying they are quite stout. Like this one comparing it to the getrags:
http://www.freshalloy.com/forums/arc.../t-168517.html
this was one of the links I had been looking at referring to them blowing up, but I also saw quite a few saying they are quite stout. Like this one comparing it to the getrags:
http://www.freshalloy.com/forums/arc.../t-168517.html
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Originally Posted by honda9krpm' timestamp='1302413418' post='20449135
The Z33 trans will fit. It's not that much different to a Nissan skyline r33 gtst gearbox, which I have one in my s2k.
The nissan bell house was chopped and welded to a cnc billet plate in the shape of the font 1/2 of the s2k bell house. It was done this way because the first trial the weld between the honda s2k and nissan bellhouse broke and costed me a bomb to replace the damage bits. The shop blamed on the s2k cast material rather their welding. You will need a nissan clutch + custom flywheel to mate the f20c to the nissan clutch.
If I do it all over again, I would probably use the supra 6 speed gearbox.
The nissan bell house was chopped and welded to a cnc billet plate in the shape of the font 1/2 of the s2k bell house. It was done this way because the first trial the weld between the honda s2k and nissan bellhouse broke and costed me a bomb to replace the damage bits. The shop blamed on the s2k cast material rather their welding. You will need a nissan clutch + custom flywheel to mate the f20c to the nissan clutch.
If I do it all over again, I would probably use the supra 6 speed gearbox.
If you could do it again what do you think about using the most of the s2k housing and as little of the z33 trans as possible? keep the stock flywheel/pressure plate/throw out/pivot arm etc and just change to a nissan spline disc.
My initial problem was with the weld between the honda and nissan bellhouses. It came apart at the drag strip after launch, 1st and 2nd gear. Fortunately the gearbox did not dig into the drag strip and flip the car otherwise I would probably not be able to type this atm. The workshop blamed that the honda bellhouse material is too "porous". To be honest I don't know if that is correct but just grateful of the big fellow up there. That's why I got the honda half of the bellhouse CNC from a billet block.
Originally Posted by honda9krpm' timestamp='1302413418' post='20449135
The Z33 trans will fit. It's not that much different to a Nissan skyline r33 gtst gearbox, which I have one in my s2k.
The nissan bell house was chopped and welded to a cnc billet plate in the shape of the font 1/2 of the s2k bell house. It was done this way because the first trial the weld between the honda s2k and nissan bellhouse broke and costed me a bomb to replace the damage bits. The shop blamed on the s2k cast material rather their welding. You will need a nissan clutch + custom flywheel to mate the f20c to the nissan clutch.
If I do it all over again, I would probably use the supra 6 speed gearbox.
The nissan bell house was chopped and welded to a cnc billet plate in the shape of the font 1/2 of the s2k bell house. It was done this way because the first trial the weld between the honda s2k and nissan bellhouse broke and costed me a bomb to replace the damage bits. The shop blamed on the s2k cast material rather their welding. You will need a nissan clutch + custom flywheel to mate the f20c to the nissan clutch.
If I do it all over again, I would probably use the supra 6 speed gearbox.
I like the Supra box as well but rare and expensive over here, Z33 would be much better if it could handle the abuse.
Supra gearboxes are rare and expensive over here too. However the close 6 speed ratio will have less stress on the synchro and if I used this box in the past I would not have put a set of dog gears in. The dog gears requires yearly maintenance, rebuild and oil change, for reliability. I had 2 sets fail on me in the past few years between 2 cars.
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Originally Posted by ScorpioMk' timestamp='1302426766' post='20449360
[quote name='honda9krpm' timestamp='1302413418' post='20449135']
The Z33 trans will fit. It's not that much different to a Nissan skyline r33 gtst gearbox, which I have one in my s2k.
The nissan bell house was chopped and welded to a cnc billet plate in the shape of the font 1/2 of the s2k bell house. It was done this way because the first trial the weld between the honda s2k and nissan bellhouse broke and costed me a bomb to replace the damage bits. The shop blamed on the s2k cast material rather their welding. You will need a nissan clutch + custom flywheel to mate the f20c to the nissan clutch.
If I do it all over again, I would probably use the supra 6 speed gearbox.
The Z33 trans will fit. It's not that much different to a Nissan skyline r33 gtst gearbox, which I have one in my s2k.
The nissan bell house was chopped and welded to a cnc billet plate in the shape of the font 1/2 of the s2k bell house. It was done this way because the first trial the weld between the honda s2k and nissan bellhouse broke and costed me a bomb to replace the damage bits. The shop blamed on the s2k cast material rather their welding. You will need a nissan clutch + custom flywheel to mate the f20c to the nissan clutch.
If I do it all over again, I would probably use the supra 6 speed gearbox.
If you could do it again what do you think about using the most of the s2k housing and as little of the z33 trans as possible? keep the stock flywheel/pressure plate/throw out/pivot arm etc and just change to a nissan spline disc.
My initial problem was with the weld between the honda and nissan bellhouses. It came apart at the drag strip after launch, 1st and 2nd gear. Fortunately the gearbox did not dig into the drag strip and flip the car otherwise I would probably not be able to type this atm. The workshop blamed that the honda bellhouse material is too "porous". To be honest I don't know if that is correct but just grateful of the big fellow up there. That's why I got the honda half of the bellhouse CNC from a billet block.
Originally Posted by honda9krpm' timestamp='1302413418' post='20449135
The Z33 trans will fit. It's not that much different to a Nissan skyline r33 gtst gearbox, which I have one in my s2k.
The nissan bell house was chopped and welded to a cnc billet plate in the shape of the font 1/2 of the s2k bell house. It was done this way because the first trial the weld between the honda s2k and nissan bellhouse broke and costed me a bomb to replace the damage bits. The shop blamed on the s2k cast material rather their welding. You will need a nissan clutch + custom flywheel to mate the f20c to the nissan clutch.
If I do it all over again, I would probably use the supra 6 speed gearbox.
The nissan bell house was chopped and welded to a cnc billet plate in the shape of the font 1/2 of the s2k bell house. It was done this way because the first trial the weld between the honda s2k and nissan bellhouse broke and costed me a bomb to replace the damage bits. The shop blamed on the s2k cast material rather their welding. You will need a nissan clutch + custom flywheel to mate the f20c to the nissan clutch.
If I do it all over again, I would probably use the supra 6 speed gearbox.
I like the Supra box as well but rare and expensive over here, Z33 would be much better if it could handle the abuse.
Supra gearboxes are rare and expensive over here too. However the close 6 speed ratio will have less stress on the synchro and if I used this box in the past I would not have put a set of dog gears in. The dog gears requires yearly maintenance, rebuild and oil change, for reliability. I had 2 sets fail on me in the past few years between 2 cars.
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Could I get some pictures of your setup? Or would you even sell the bellhousing if your going to be doing something different? I dont want to blow up a trans every time I go out, I'll have built 8.8 or 9" under the car, its just gonna be a trans thing. I want to enjoy the car, and be able to beat the piss out of it, not fear breaking it.