Advice on gearbox

[littleblue1]

Having trouble finding a gearbox for my vtr which will be running around 240bhp, been told that a standard vtr box wont hack it, anyone give me ideas or personal opinions on what box to use as im stuck

Cheers

[chinkostu]

Only thing stronger would be to convert it to a BE box that they mated to the XU engines and the larger peugeots such as the 306. Is it turbo'd?

[Ross]

Vtr box with an ATB diff would be ok for a while if driven with mechanical sympathy tbh. And the diff would make the car a LOT more drivable.

[welshpug]

Depends on the torque really, and how well chosen and mapped the turbo is, there's quite a few race cars not far off that power but likely to be far less torque, and they do still need to service the boxes fairly regularly and have a very large degree of mechanical sympathy.

[vtr91]

how much is a diff for a VTR box?

[Ross]

John (gmc) has the quaife on offer at the moment iirc. Give him a call. Around £550 from memory.

It is all about the torque tho as said. The physical casings twist and pull the gears apart on high load.