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Recommendations For R32 Gtr Gearbox Rebuilder?

shaund

By shaund,
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shaund Enthusiast

shaund

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Hi Guys,

I've checked the consolidated workshop thread, and nothing there specifically listing for gearbox rebuilds.

My box is a bit tired with the sychro on 4th playing up when the box gets warm - its particularly bad if I hit the track...

Any recommendations would be much appreciated.

Would also be great if anyone with personal experience with this could let me know, good or bad (pm with bad to avoid the negative-post-police though :laugh: ), with an indication of price too.

Cheers!

-Shaun

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tricstar

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perfect transmission in bibra lakes. :thumbsup:

yeah, what was done and how much??

I've had a box inspected locally and had quote work around town and got crazy prices, ended up sending my gearbox to "Competition Gearboxes " in Croydon over east, The guy is Simon well worth a call! He can get good rates for freight so no biggy sending it,

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tricstar

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I went through a workshop so obviously they had their mark up on it, but just to have a gearbox inspected ( at the advise of the workshop, which I no longer go to ) so pulled apart and checked, then reassembled with new seals and bearings, so no gears or syncros touched cost me $1100,:sick:

Thought that was a bit steep so rang a couple of places around town ( could only find a couple that were interested or capable ) and was told that was about right ..

Got onto Simon from Competition Gearboxes, recommended by someone on here, and he said I had been stitched up ( as I suspected ) he charged about $200 for an inspection if you didn't proceed with any work. Anyway from memory I think Simon said to recon a box with syncros etc was about $800.

But ring around yourself and get some prices they should be any to quote you over the phone if you tell them you need new syncro's, seals and bearings

Competition Gearboxes 03 97233380

ohno1 Collaborator

ohno1

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Hi Pal,

Thanks, have you had a box rebuilt there?

Cheers!

-Shaun

ive had a box built at perfect's, was about 6-7yrs ago now.. was a reasonably tuff auto for a blown commo i used to have, was happy with the service

actually thinking back.. that box was pretty fkn awesome haha

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tricstar

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yeah Commo box is one thing, start talking GTR box and they start quoting phone numbers$ I don't think they do enough of them locally, as apposed to Commo's etc

Anyway Shaun how did you go, get quotes? $? local ? east?

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monga Experienced

monga

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The cost to rebuild a stock gear box compared the cost of a good secondhand one is much cheaper. After new Nissan parts and labour it will be near 4 or 5k. Get a replace for about 1k and you will be fine, just don't hammer 3rd.

heller44 Mentor

heller44

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Went through this myself recently, even bought a secondhand box and was going to fit it and play the odds. Unfortunately it wasn't quite what was advertised, so decided against it after research.

The options I ended up with were rebuilding (competition gearboxes) or buying a decent one. Ended up finding a brand new ser3 r33 box for not much more than a rebuild. Within my budget as well.

The extra expense of rebuilding the earlier boxes is there are a few parts that are not available anymore, and you have to upgrade internals to the same as the one I bought anyway.

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turboedsloth Grand Master

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Is the bell housing the same on the series 1,2 and 3 boxes? So say if i had my s1 box shit itself and i didnt want to repair it, could i get a later model pull style box and switch bellhousings to retain the push setup?

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yeh should be able to change a pull to push just like you can change push to pull, basically just mount the slave on the other side of the folk..

And there is no way it costs 4-5K to rebuild a gearbox :no: well it shouldn't if you go the right place as mentioned in the replys above.

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