Sadev 5 speed fitting

[KingStromba]

Anyone any idea how easy / hard it is to actually fit the 5 speed sadev box.

I cant find a decent 6 speed on the second hand market, but ive sourced a 5 speed at a goodish price.

Also how easy to fit a 5 speed from a lhd car to a rhd car? Is there any major difficulty?

[clowo16v]

LHD or RHD makes no difference the engine still faces the same way.

See ya

Matt

[KingStromba]

Cheers, im not 100% convinced sadev made a 5 speed, i think they did, but its hard translating information from French and Spanish all the time, i know i get misinformation sometimes this way.

[Winston]

Droooooooooooooool!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

[KingStromba]

I know the linkages will be the hardest part to fit, so im going to try to get a box straight out of a 16v / williams shell with all linkages attatched.

I know someone to rebuild it.


Will i have any other probs.

[Rich]

just the dent in your wallet i reckon!

[dimkais]

Cheers, im not 100% convinced sadev made a 5 speed, i think they did, but its hard translating information from French and Spanish all the time, i know i get misinformation sometimes this way.

Rob, i am lookin for a gearbox too.I sent a mail to Sadev and this is what they said
Dear Demitris

I am sorry but Sadev do not make Syncromesh gear kits, we only work with dog engaugment on H Pattern units and produce 95% sequential gearboxes.
I am sorry we can not help you this time.


Regards Steve Waudby
SWR Motorsport Ltd.
What have you find so far?There is a company in Italy making everything about gearboxes.If you want ,tell me to give you their site.
Better prices than UK tho.
Dimitris

[KingStromba]

My plan was to buy a second hand ex rally car from spain with a sadev already fitted - they seem pretty cheap - and transfer the box across along with any uprated parts.

I may need a couple of trips to spain to get it sorted (good excuse for a holiday), but the advantage of doing it this way is that all the likages are already on the car and its just a case of making them fit your car (which they should do).

Aparently the boxes fit easily, but its the linkages that cause problems.

Obviously the sequential box has a lsd as standard too so i wouldnt need to purchase one separately.

[Justin..]

Are you on about a g.box that you just push the lever forward to change gear? Do they have clutches like a manual?

[KingStromba]

I believe that the gear change can be 'clutchless', and the car automatically drops the revs when you move the gearlever, then reapplies them when the car is back in gear.


I also beleive the car needs to be mapped to suit the box characteristics.

[BenR]

Be careful with your search.
earlier GrpA boxs were still H pattern and 5 speed, might want to double and triple check with the sellers that it is 100% sequential.

The gearbox will only cut the fuel/ignition if you have an ECU controlled full throttle shift setup, if not, just lift and reapply throttle for a fraction of a second, always the way i've done it and more fun to drive imo.

i've never seen a mk1 shell with a modern sequantial sadev in it.

[KingStromba]

Ive seen loads on videos, and on spanish classified sites there are a few. I cant find any in this country although i have the sadev UK agents name now thanks to Nick Hill.

[Martin]

Sequential would be awesome....looks class in the rally vids, suppose it helps to have 260 bhp or so lol. Stromba just build a Maxi...then let me have a go! :wink:

[2 live]

when i enquired about these the message i got from sadev was that they didnt make the gearsets for the 5 speeds any more, which put me off sourcing a 2nd hand one as a rebuild would be expensive, but the 6 speed sequential can be had in 2 specs. road and race, with the race box being the cheaper of the two

[BenR]

Ive seen loads on videos, and on spanish classified sites there are a few. I cant find any in this country although i have the sadev UK agents name now thanks to Nick Hill.

who, SWR

maybe i'm not watching enough videos.

[2 live]

theres also redline motorsport....but they deal with swr too.