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alastairq
Joined: 14 Oct 2016
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Location: East Yorkshire
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| peter scott wrote: | The Toyota Supra 5 speed box seems to be another popular transplant for those owners of old cars who don't really like old cars.
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Oh so well put! I agree entirely. |
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badhuis
Joined: 20 Aug 2008
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Location: Netherlands
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| Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 10:13 am Post subject: |
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| peter scott wrote: | | The Toyota Supra 5 speed box seems to be another popular transplant for those owners of old cars who don't really like old cars. |
There we are again, the sliding scale.
What is acceptable? Installing bright white LEDs instead of the cute yellow-ish original bulbs? Radial tyres instead of diagonal? Putting in an overdrive box instead of the 4 speed? Switching the 3 speed auto to a lock up four speed auto? Stainless steel exhaust instead of mild steel (which has a slightly different sound)? Stainless steel bumpers instead of rechroming steel? Fit retractable seat belts instead of none? Modern radio? Etc.....
A never ending discussion.
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Ashley
Joined: 02 Jan 2008
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Location: Near Stroud, Glos
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| Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 11:34 am Post subject: |
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| I considered putting a Toyota gearbox in my Healey because the standard one is sixties BMC, but then I thought of everything else that’s wrong with it compared to my moderns and realised that it’s best left standard and enjoyed for what it is, a nice old fashioned sixties car. |
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47Jag
Joined: 26 Jun 2008
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Location: Bothwell, Scotland
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Just be clear, I have no intention of swapping mines. I was merely curious of the origins of a Type 5.
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47Jag
Joined: 26 Jun 2008
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Location: Bothwell, Scotland
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Just be clear, I have no intention of swapping mines. I was merely curious of the origins of a Type 5.
Art
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JohnDale
Joined: 19 Mar 2008
Posts: 790
Location: Kelvin Valley,Scotland
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| 47Jag wrote: | Further to this and a little sidestep. The Ford Type 5 gearbox is being suggested as a modern replacement for Jaguar MKIV & V because of the overdrive 5th. My question is, what cars were these fitted to? Sierra?
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Hi Art,I think you'll find it's a Ford 5 speed type 9 gearbox,cheers,JD.
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BigJohn
Joined: 01 Jan 2011
Posts: 954
Location: Wem, Shropshire
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| Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 4:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Ray White wrote: | | My Dad had a lovely white 2 door GT Corsair which today would be a very rare car. I drove it illegally before passing my test and recall you could induce wheelspin when changing up into second gear! |
When I was 19 I dragged a Corsair 2 door 2 litre Gt out of a barn, it had a porous inlet manifold, no carb, and the head lining was one huge mouse nest. It was rare but worthless and cost me £10. We stripped it out then found a manifold in the parts pile, a Weber like a jacuzzi, some welding and my cage fitted. After some magic wand waving it would spin the tyres in 3rd. It was banger raced, but the silly hex oil pump/dizzy drive went ping in the final........
Oh to be 19 in 1975 again! |
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47Jag
Joined: 26 Jun 2008
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Location: Bothwell, Scotland
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JD,
All I can say is DOH 
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Inglewood
Joined: 28 Dec 2010
Posts: 183
Location: Stone, Staffordshire
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| In my opinion the Corsair was a good car when compared with other Ford models but it did not fair well when compared to the Rover 2000 and Triumph 2000. |
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lowdrag
Joined: 10 Apr 2009
Posts: 1585
Location: Le Mans
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| For the life of me I cannot understand changing to a 5-speed box when it is so much cheaper to change the diff ratio. On my Jaguar 70mph with the original 3.31 is 3,000 rpm. Put in a 3.07 and you have "saved" 500 rpm. Much more relaxed cruising. I had a friend who in his V12 E-type dropped in a S1 XJ6 O/D box and used a 2.88 diff ratio. On a run down to the south of France his V12 was more economical than my 3.8. 1,500 rpm at 60 mph says it all. But on the subject of Corsairs, no one seems to have mentioned that triumph of engineering, the V4 motor. No more to be said on that subject I believe. |
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oldboy
Joined: 20 Mar 2018
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Location: Retford
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| I owned a Corsair 2000E in the early seventies and loved it, it was my second car and I remember being impressed that it would accelerate uphill. Later I also owned two of it's contemporaries the Rover 2000TC and the Triumph 2000 they all had good and bad points and I would struggle to choose my favorite although if pushed it would probably be the Triumph but in 2.5PI form ( if that's not cheating a little). |
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