Scunderbird
RMS Regular
Evening all,
In my garage currently sits a BMW e60 525d gearbox (GS6-37dz) and an empty casing for a Mustang T45, I'm looking to get the belhousing of the T45 fabbed up to the front of the ZF beemer box, this has become a fairly common sight in the drift scene nad these boxes are being used behind JZs, UZs, RBs, LS, VR6s, Volvo motors and more, I'm looking to use this to make one of, if not the first manual V8 MN12 Thunderbirds in Europe. Personally, I hate driving automatic especially when it's a slow, sluggish 4 speed that just sucks power away from the engine.
I'm trying to find someone who would be able to do either a cut and weld of the two boxes to make one or an adapter plate. What's putting me off adapter plates is then running into the issues of custom flywheels or having to use spacers etc, where as, to my knowledge with a cut and shut I'd be able to use a stock Mustang SN95 flywheel or a lightened aftermarket version, freeing up some more WHP and increasing the responsiveness in the process. Just also to clarify why I didn't jus use a stock ford option is because very few people import manuals, and the ones who do tend to keep them, ontop of that, the Ford tremec boxes outside of a select few are pretty weak to more than stock HP, and with a Scania turbo sitting in my garage waiting, I didn't even want to risk it. (Or pay the 1700 quid shipping fee for an S197 gearbox)
Any advice or insight into this would be greatly appreciated.
In my garage currently sits a BMW e60 525d gearbox (GS6-37dz) and an empty casing for a Mustang T45, I'm looking to get the belhousing of the T45 fabbed up to the front of the ZF beemer box, this has become a fairly common sight in the drift scene nad these boxes are being used behind JZs, UZs, RBs, LS, VR6s, Volvo motors and more, I'm looking to use this to make one of, if not the first manual V8 MN12 Thunderbirds in Europe. Personally, I hate driving automatic especially when it's a slow, sluggish 4 speed that just sucks power away from the engine.
I'm trying to find someone who would be able to do either a cut and weld of the two boxes to make one or an adapter plate. What's putting me off adapter plates is then running into the issues of custom flywheels or having to use spacers etc, where as, to my knowledge with a cut and shut I'd be able to use a stock Mustang SN95 flywheel or a lightened aftermarket version, freeing up some more WHP and increasing the responsiveness in the process. Just also to clarify why I didn't jus use a stock ford option is because very few people import manuals, and the ones who do tend to keep them, ontop of that, the Ford tremec boxes outside of a select few are pretty weak to more than stock HP, and with a Scania turbo sitting in my garage waiting, I didn't even want to risk it. (Or pay the 1700 quid shipping fee for an S197 gearbox)
Any advice or insight into this would be greatly appreciated.