Joining the Porsche family, track rat style.

[WizardSmokey]

Indeed! I most definitely feel like I'm doing some good testing. It seems like the people that may or may not have tested how much power the 5 speed can handle haven't documented it very well, which I intend to recify.

Eventually, I might even make a seperate thread about the 5 speed and associated data for it, seeing as after the extensive research I have done and have turned up an amount of information equivilant to the square root of jack ****************.

[truegearhead]

Originally Posted by WizardSmokey

Indeed! I most definitely feel like I'm doing some good testing. It seems like the people that may or may not have tested how much power the 5 speed can handle haven't documented it very well, which I intend to recify.

Eventually, I might even make a seperate thread about the 5 speed and associated data for it, seeing as after the extensive research I have done and have turned up an amount of information equivilant to the square root of jack ****************.

I’m not sure I’d put money on it but I think we’ll all be surprised. You’re a good test too, lots of power, lots of tire and you there’s nothing harder on a transmission than an autocross (no rolling start, and all low gear fast shifts). I think if it’ll survive an autocross it’ll survive the track (maybe heat would come into play on the track but a cooler would solve that).

[itsnotanova]

From what I've seen with the local spec boxster crowd. Heat and bad shifting kills the five speed. Some guy tap the case so cool oil from the cooler pours directly onto third and fourth gears because those are the gears that they kill the most. A cooler can't hurt but I know some guys who don't run a cooler at all and their transmission's last for two-three seasons. They swear it's all about correct shifting. I have one friend who got bored racing spec and put a 3.4 in his car. He tracks it constantly and I believe he's still using a 5 speed with no problems. That's around 300hp. The porsche 3.4 has a lot less torque than the V8 you're using though. I think you'll be fine as long as you don't try dropping the clutch in first