HAN5L778
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Way back when, early to mid 70s, I raced a Bugeye Sprite. One of the modifications I recall was to swap gears from a rib case trans into the smooth case box we were required to use. This swap allowed us to use stronger gears that had better spacing between the ratios. yeah, it was probably illegal for the class at the time, but I wasn't running to qualify for the Rinoffs. I believe that there had to be some modifications to either the inside of the case, or to the washers or spacers to make the rib case gears fit.
Has someone heard of doing this, or what needs to be done to make this swap. The reason now is that I'm building a Bugeye to sell and between the 3 smooth case tranmissions I have one has a second gear synchro that is shot, one is untested and the last was canabalized for parts for another Bugeye that I built and sold a few years ago. But I have several ribcase trans's that seem to be in good condition. Plus, I want to keep the look of the original smooth case transmission if I can.
Rick
Has someone heard of doing this, or what needs to be done to make this swap. The reason now is that I'm building a Bugeye to sell and between the 3 smooth case tranmissions I have one has a second gear synchro that is shot, one is untested and the last was canabalized for parts for another Bugeye that I built and sold a few years ago. But I have several ribcase trans's that seem to be in good condition. Plus, I want to keep the look of the original smooth case transmission if I can.
Rick