5 speed on e bay

[Guest]

1) I don't do this as a business. As I said earlier, I did this from the prospective of an enthusiast, in support of the hobby/community.
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3) I'm not going to invest the time and money for development, only to have an imitator come along and make a copy of it cheaper.
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Then there shouldn't be any worried about someone coming out with one cheaper if someone is doing this in support of the community and not as a business....




Aint no body baiting anyone into anything, it's either one or the other. if you don't feel like it ( no matter what the reason), then you don't feel like doin' it. As someone who does whatever they do or don't feel like doin', I COMPLETELY understand!

I'd do it just because it needs doin', but I'm not set up for anything like that at all right now.

FWIW, you have my respect for picking up the torch. Why?..... cause it needed doin'. :wink:

 

[smaceng]

I would like to add my two-bits to what Gerard does both for a living and for the Sprite community. He is unlike most of us, he build, repairs, services, and makes parts for old british sports cars. He has one of the smallest shops I have ever seen out in the Sunset District of SF. He has my total admiration and respect when it comes to what he has done for me and what he does for our community. To design parts, have them manufactured and then market to a small group of buyers is challenging to say the least. To you man, high five!
Scott in CA

 

[Guest]

Glad I got mine. 5 speed on evay now at $1,500 BIN price.hard to believe.

And all it takes is one idiot to buy it and then folks think the next level has been set higher and that's the new market price.


See the problem now?

 

[Gerard]

I would like to add my two-bits to what Gerard does both for a living and for the Sprite community. He is unlike most of us, he build, repairs, services, and makes parts for old british sports cars. He has one of the smallest shops I have ever seen out in the Sunset District of SF. He has my total admiration and respect when it comes to what he has done for me and what he does for our community. To design parts, have them manufactured and then market to a small group of buyers is challenging to say the least. To you man, high five!
Scott in CA

Scott,

I'm humbled by your generous comments. Thank you!

I only wish I'd had a chance to see your Bugeye in person. From pictures, it was something to be seen.

 

[nomad]

This discussion has come up before and I'd like to add my two bits.

First of all I doubt that another trans could be found that will fit. The availability of rear drive boxes for anything in the future is going to be an ever increasing problem. The only rear drive cars that have been made for some time are high HP. For that matter engines that will work in a RWD car are going to be hard to come by.

Then,I'm apparently not alone with having Nissan parts people that make no effort to find any parts for older cars. Somewhere the parts exist! These transmissions were being made new in South Africa only about a decade ago. Same in Malaysia. I tried everything I could think of to find oversize pistons for an A15 Datsun engine with no success yet I know they exist from the factory. They have to since these engines went in front drive and many other models all over the world.

This community needs to find someone capable of communicating the need to the right places. I speak no foreign language's and I imagine that is a big part of the problem. If South African Baki's were built there, I imagine they only assembled parts received from Japan. Also, if people on this forum know a particularly helpful Nissan parts dealer perhaps he might not mind taking orders from forum members.

As Gerard mentioned, we compete with the Datsun guys for these and I really don't think there is a lot of love for us in there rank's but perhaps we ought to try a dialog with them to see if we could get some transmission's from another country.

Again, just my rambling thought's.
Kurt

 

[Gerard]

This discussion has come up before and I'd like to add my two bits.

First of all I doubt that another trans could be found that will fit. The availability of rear drive boxes for anything in the future is going to be an ever increasing problem. The only rear drive cars that have been made for some time are high HP. For that matter engines that will work in a RWD car are going to be hard to come by.

Then,I'm apparently not alone with having Nissan parts people that make no effort to find any parts for older cars. Somewhere the parts exist! These transmissions were being made new in South Africa only about a decade ago. Same in Malaysia. I tried everything I could think of to find oversize pistons for an A15 Datsun engine with no success yet I know they exist from the factory. They have to since these engines went in front drive and many other models all over the world.

This community needs to find someone capable of communicating the need to the right places. I speak no foreign language's and I imagine that is a big part of the problem. If South African Baki's were built there, I imagine they only assembled parts received from Japan. Also, if people on this forum know a particularly helpful Nissan parts dealer perhaps he might not mind taking orders from forum members.

As Gerard mentioned, we compete with the Datsun guys for these and I really don't think there is a lot of love for us in there rank's but perhaps we ought to try a dialog with them to see if we could get some transmission's from another country.

Again, just my rambling thought's.
Kurt

Hi Kurt,

Thanks for adding to this discussion.

As you might imagine (or not), I hear from a lot of non-forum members regarding the the 5 speed kits and gearboxes. That includes people needing some particular part or other they need to complete a kit and to repair their gearbox. I also have made contacts with enthusiasts in NZ and SA, and they tell me it's just as hard to find these gearboxes there. So, in spite of you being correct about the continued use of the gearbox, particularly in the truck in SA, (and maybe because they are), they are still not plentiful.

You are absolutely correct about Nissan dealers either not having interest or access to parts databases for these older cars. In case you missed it in my earlier post, I am lucky to have someone locally who DOES have access and WILL check for availability and order them for me when they can be found. This is definitely not the norm though. Some of the parts I was able to get only a year or so ago have become NLA, but I suppose that's because either old inventories have been used up or that there's just not the demand. I have however been able to get parts that others are told aren't available. This is what I've come to believe anecdotally, anyway.

 

[nomad]

Thanks, Gerard, I may be bugging you in the future!

Kurt.