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harrop.senator
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As a side not on the getrags. Pends how hard you drive it and what your definition of unreliable is. My wifes put 70 thousand kms on her getrag and never had an issue. No bearing whine as of yet and cars got 230,000 kms on it.
Its on its second clutch i cleaned the flywheel up with a wire brush attachment on the grinder and fitted a $145 clutch industries clutch new master and slave after buying it at 160,000kms. It still had heaps of meat on it when i removed it and went to the solid chrome moly flywheel and clutch which cost me $560 as i had to have it mirror balanced for the supercharger motor.
Ive given the car an occasional hard time 2.5k first gear dumps snatching second in the dry and third and fourth gear clutch kicks in the wet no issues.
Only getrags i personally know of that have had issues have been synchros going. Everyone i knew of drove them hard and had worn shifter bushes. In my opinion that would put a lot extra load under hard changes as wont be as precise.
Also theyre only around $800 exchange for a reconned unit if it does start having issues and theyre tiny and take half an hour to remove. Theyre definitely not a perfect transmission but after hearing all the horror stories and then owning one myself as ive had them in a few bmws i can vouch theyre not thattttttt bad.
Its on its second clutch i cleaned the flywheel up with a wire brush attachment on the grinder and fitted a $145 clutch industries clutch new master and slave after buying it at 160,000kms. It still had heaps of meat on it when i removed it and went to the solid chrome moly flywheel and clutch which cost me $560 as i had to have it mirror balanced for the supercharger motor.
Ive given the car an occasional hard time 2.5k first gear dumps snatching second in the dry and third and fourth gear clutch kicks in the wet no issues.
Only getrags i personally know of that have had issues have been synchros going. Everyone i knew of drove them hard and had worn shifter bushes. In my opinion that would put a lot extra load under hard changes as wont be as precise.
Also theyre only around $800 exchange for a reconned unit if it does start having issues and theyre tiny and take half an hour to remove. Theyre definitely not a perfect transmission but after hearing all the horror stories and then owning one myself as ive had them in a few bmws i can vouch theyre not thattttttt bad.