D First I put a picture of the engine bay in the track photos, see below.

Dave the box I have is a 56A, so it may well be the issue.

Benny, I would absolutely love one of the dog boxes PJZ had, I stupidly passed on one that was very reasonable that just needed a rebuild. The issue is my car might be worth all of $7,000 and adding a $3500 gearbox to it seems a bit much. The 4 speed Option II box will set me back $1500 but it's been professionally rebuilt and it comes with boxes of spares. There might even be a spare mid close cluster gear in the spares. I haven't checked the bearing with a caliper yet but I can visibly move the input shaft bearings well one on the cluster gear.

Circa 2008 I stripped the original gearbox with a pretty standard A12GX but that had 100K on it. After that I picked up the mid-close box from one of the San Francisco area 1200 racers, he did mention I should go through the box because it had quite a few miles on it..........naturally I was under the gun so I slapped it in and back 2010 that munched 3rd. At the time the car made a whopping 73WHP. PJZ had a gear set that as mentioned I slapped in without thoroughly checking everything. The gearbox had roughly 30 events on it and to be honest it puked its contents on 3 different occasions, so that sure didn't help. The box has been rather whiny since just before I put the A15 in, the A15 has been in the car for the last 7 events.

I even looked into modding a Miata/MX5 5 speed and using the competition gear set but after mating up the bell housing buying a $2000 gear set we'd quickly be back at $3500.

Tom

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