I'm looking at biting the bullet and getting a 5 speed gearbox for my mini .
The minispares 5 speed gearboxes come in straight cut(MSG07) or the hellical cut (MSG05) - Does anyone know what would be the better gearbox to go for ? and does the straight cut really make that much more noise over the hellical cut gearbox?

Olly

this looks out of stock? might wanna shoot an email to em and get a rough quote for shipping,
looks like about $3.5K just for the box.

http://www.minispares.com/Product.aspx? ... le=GEARBOX 5 SPEED A PLUS GE...

It is a 5 week wait to get the gearbox as they are made up in lots of ten gearboxes at a time ..
It's a little bit cheaper with the 15% off at the mo and the dollar is good to the GBP.

Shipping is 150GBP.

Are those kits just for the cogs? Meaning they would have to be installed into a box here? Or is it for the whole thing as the picture shows, ready to bolt to the bum of your block?

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Looks to me to be the whole unit, assembled..

If I had a spare $3500, I know where I'd be spending it

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Simon

The adventures of an owner builder in the Tallarook Ranges

Casino? so you can double or even triple it?

Wouldnt a better option be to buy the gears and save hugely on postage and get them fitted over here?

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Simplify and add lightness

That's genuinely funny.

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Simon

The adventures of an owner builder in the Tallarook Ranges

Would that be on a 5 speed box or on an elder 7 port head?

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1970 Mini Deluxe - 1275, Weber, Clive 346 cam, MS 4-pot slotted discs, Megajolt ignition Now with new improved Mambas... almost on the road
1966 Van with Traveller rear seat conversion
2008 Prado GXL
All in various states of repair...

I like the fact that the 5th gear on these is a true overdrive, some of the other 5 speed units, 5th is a 1:1 so just like a 4 speed.

I don't have one but am interested in others experience with them.

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1970 Mini Deluxe - 1275, Weber, Clive 346 cam, MS 4-pot slotted discs, Megajolt ignition Now with new improved Mambas... almost on the road
1966 Van with Traveller rear seat conversion
2008 Prado GXL
All in various states of repair...

AAaaiiieeeeeeeeee

If I had a spare $7000, I know where I'd be spending it.

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Simon

The adventures of an owner builder in the Tallarook Ranges

Oooh, seen the exchange rate today $1 AUD = 0.51 GBP. When does that 15% discount finish again?

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1970 Mini Deluxe - 1275, Weber, Clive 346 cam, MS 4-pot slotted discs, Megajolt ignition Now with new improved Mambas... almost on the road
1966 Van with Traveller rear seat conversion
2008 Prado GXL
All in various states of repair...

End of the month.

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I'm pretty sure the casing requires significant modifications to fit the gears...

if I had a dollar for every time I got on the freeway and reached for a 5th gear, I could afford one of those boxes....

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did I tell you that I won a trophy?

I'm a newbie to the mini world and you're an old timer in the mini world....
you mean....... i'll still be doing THAT in the years to come???

When i was at IMM and talking to the lads at minispares they told me the box requires machining to fit the 5th gear.

As for noise i was told the striaght cut gears are not too noisy by them selves. It is the drop gears that make them incredibly noisy to which some people said "dont bother with a radio." So i just bought the straight cut 4-syncho gears and brung them back (300pound was a good price less than 1/2 what they are here)

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