[Fot] SVRA allows 5 speed transmission conversion!

[tr3a58 at verizon.net]

   I think SVRA has allowed it for a couple of years. I ran all last year
   with a T5 in my TR3 and it is great. Also doesn't leak like the old TR
   box  with CR grears. When I ran the OD box leaking was also a problem.
   The TR boxes had just been apart too many times.

   Dean T.

   Feb 10, 2009 12:57:41 PM, igofaster at charter.net wrote:

     Some  of ya'll (I'm Texan) recall the trials and tribulations of my
     sweet Bob Davis GT6 with a T50 5 speed gearbox.
     CVAR  has  not  allowed the 5 speed conversion... I just ran out of
     the  library..  with my March 2009 Grassroots Motorsports Magazine.
     Our  fellow  FoT'er  Tim  Suddard  and  his  race prepared TR3 have
     apparently  been  allowed  to  make the transmission swap to a Borg
     Warner  T5  five speed conversion. Apparently SVRA stated that "any
     car  that  came  with  five  forward  speeds,  like  our over-drive
     equipped  Triumphs-can make the transmission swap". Maybe this is a
     new  rule,  apparently  it is. Not that I don't mind playing by the
     rules... I'm on my 4th transmission job...$3000.00 plus dollars and
     DNF's 50% of the last 6 events...
     I'm  on  the  newest Triumph transmission from Quantumechanics... a
     custom  GT6  transmission  with  TR7 gears and a J type overdrive..
     modifications to the frame to TRY to make it work.. AGAIN.....
     Needless  to say, I'm going after CVAR, ONCE AGAIN, to see if there
     may  be  a  chance I can put the T50 back in the car.. I could have
     sold  the  T50  for  several thousand dollars with the drive shaft,
     conversion,  and  mod's to the car... but I haven't... hoping I can
     find a spot for it.
     Frankly,  I'm  upset... seems if a national captioning vintage race
     group  allows  the  5  speed  conversion,  other groups should come
     around and acknowledge the swap.
     thanks  Tim  Suddard  for the article, maybe we can move forward to
     reliable racing.
     I  quote  Tim's article " it's more fun to run reliable at the back
     of the group-or not at all." I've said it before, I don't care if I
     start  last and finish last, I just wanna race... after all... it's
     an $8.00 trophy at the end of the season.
     Bobby Whitehead
     #53 CVAR Triumph GT6+ Group II
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