Quote Originally Posted by Rod Grimwood View Post
Jay you say, "The Avenger actually set the fastest lap of the weekend in the class but had Gearbox issues as half the field did. (Bloody fast Avenger!) We had 12 entrys in total so numbers were up and down all weekend due to the weak gearbox issues."

This is a problem with the old 4 speed gear we all used way back then. I actually went to a Celica 5 speed back in late 80s to stop this when ran in Sports Sedans 2Lt. I would not use this in historic shellsport, but would like to use a Sierra box as this saves changing diffs for different tracks and last abit longer.
Maybe something to be addressed,

Then we can really start a good old fight and use something found in corner of garage under some other bits. LOL
Funny you should mention 5 speed toyota box. We do run these gearboxes in some of these cars mainly because they take the pounding better than the original stuff. We don't feel there is any advantage by running a 5speed t50. The ratios are actually very similar to the ford box. John and the technical committee for the revival, fitted that into the revised rules and regs that we now use.