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07-24-2019 #1Registered User
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T56 Magnum - am I the only one frustrated by the gearset choices?
Speaking about the bottom 4 gears here.
OEM manual trannys (on all cars in general) normally get a low 1st gear, a big gap between 1st/2nd, and the gap steadily closes from there on up. The wide-ratio TKO-500 (5spd) does this in a big way.
There is no way to get this with a T56 Magnum. Not with any combination of rearend & gearset.
The 2.66 gearset has a good pattern to the gaps, but it's still a close-ratio spread in the big picture. The 2.97 gearset has a fairly low 1st gear but the 2nd & 3rd are too close to it. It still doesn't really function like a wider ratio in practice. Not for the first 3 gears anyway.
Why can't Tremec offer a T56 Magnum ratio like what is normal on most cars? Tremec builds many production-car TR6060s with spreads like this.
(It's not possible to piece together a T56 magnum this way using existing pieces. I looked into it. The bottom 4 gears are basically all-one-piece and cannot be swapped around individually. Production TR6060 gearsets won't bolt into the Magnum case. Etc.)