Yee Hah!! The bellhousing we made for the Toyota T50 5-Speed gearbox worked an absolute treat on the weekend at Eastern Creek!!! The fifth gear is awsome as it reduces the engine rpm on that long downhill straight.

My best time on the day was 1:53.86 which was good enough for second place in class.

On another note, we have the Toyo R888's and the suspension setup good enough now so that going around turn 8, I had at least the front left and possible the rear left wheels in the air for a second or two. The little datto has never run so hard.

I want to make a webpage and put some incar camera footage on it.

Congratulations! Always great to see mods work under race conditions. Have you written up your bellhousing conversion?

congrats on a good weekend the T50 really makes a differance.Our 1000 is going good now and have just put the 4.8 ute rear end back in and 13x7 wheels on.Should make a small differance in getting out of the tight corners.One day we will have to come down and have a race with you .GREG.

Yeeee Haa indeed & congratulations. You must be peddaling well as the 'Boss' managed a personal best yesterday, yet did not beat your time. His car goes back on the dyno this week to see if there is a couple more HP that can be wrung from its long suffering A15.
None the less, he had a really great day & so did the boys in their sedan.

Did you notice that the 1200 sedan had new wheels & tyres. That helped quite a bit & now it's time to start looking at suspension upgrades.

Good to see that your & the car are runing so well.

Good news guys...........well done

hey quik1000, where'd u get the adapter plate??? You make it ?? how much you get it for. I rekon this is a pretty sweet upgrade for the ol a series since 5 speeds are getting rarer and rarer these days. Any pain in the ass moments when fitting gearbox ?? what about drive shaft??
Just looking into it.

Cheers and good luck with the races

Chris

Hi Cheater_5!
I made a bellhousing using an datsun1200 auto bellhousing as a starting point. I wouldn't do it that way again. I've got a better idea (you always have a better idea when you get the end of your first attempt). I'll be making that for my road car and if it works, I'll offer it as plans or something to eveyone here so everybody can benefit from my trials and tribulations.

We managed to get the T-50 into a manual 1000 tunnel without modifying the tunnel except for elongating the hole which the gear stick pokes through.

Tailshaft was brand-new and balanced for racing for $350. Don't reuse old toyota splines as you can't replace the uni joints on those suckers.

cheers dude. im really looking forward to seeing the plans when done
so much better/stronger than using a datsun 5 speed.

thanks so much. im all excited now

I've also nearly finished and auto bellhousing adaptor plate for my KB10.

I too have been able to fit it in the trans tunnels with no mods except the shifter hole.

I've got autocad drawings, but I need to touch up a few things before I give them away (learnt by my mistakes ).

5 speeds all round!