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You can pick faults in any of the gearboxes, and every single option for a GT-R has a myriad of failure stories. I think it all comes down to budget, all of them seem to occupy a price range seperate to the others..

Cheapest to dearest of bolt in solutions:

1/OS Gearset

2/ Pfitzner gearset

3/ Trust H pattern

4/ Pfitzner H pattern

5/ HKS H pattern

6/ Trust sequential

7/ OS sequential

8/ Hollinger seq and H pattern

Somewhere in there is the HKS sequential and air shifted boxes, but due to the nature of them (have to be sent back to Japan to be fixed by HKS) I don't think they are really an option. Same with their H pattern box. All of the other boxes can get parts purchased for repairs or updates.

Cheapest to the dearest , that being the Hollinger the dearest ?

OK forget costs, what about best reliability and best rep for the money.

You can pick faults in any of the gearboxes, and every single option for a GT-R has a myriad of failure stories. I think it all comes down to budget, all of them seem to occupy a price range seperate to the others..

Cheapest to dearest of bolt in solutions:

1/OS Gearset

2/ Pfitzner gearset

3/ Trust H pattern

4/ Pfitzner H pattern

5/ HKS H pattern

6/ Trust sequential

7/ OS sequential

8/ Hollinger seq and H pattern

Somewhere in there is the HKS sequential and air shifted boxes, but due to the nature of them (have to be sent back to Japan to be fixed by HKS) I don't think they are really an option. Same with their H pattern box. All of the other boxes can get parts purchased for repairs or updates.

Last time I priced a Hollinger it was $23k with seq shifter. But I mean, really - that's a whole new car for that price!

$23 k Nah that's to serious for me , makes a 2 speed auto look nicer all the time.

Still concidering the trust box , not sure?

spoke to John Munro a while ago, things about how his street and race GTR going.

I remeber he mention the trust was "shit", pain in the arse to drive in the traffic and not strong enough.

He ditch the Hollinger in his race car and using a OS sequential from Keir Wilson.

Didn't ask why but it might indicate how good the OS is?

and i "think" he is using Pfitzner H pattern in his 4xxawkw street GTR

Possibly if the hollinger is too much look at the new HKS sequential versions. they had some on display at this years tokyo autosalon and they looked pretty serious. again they wont be cheap, but i imagine half the price of a hollinger...

I have heard a few people bitch about the trust boxes.

that ikeya shifter would have to be the biggest waste of money i have every seen. costs over $1500 and is just as slow or slower than just using your hand to shift through and H pattern. can you tell i'm not a fan...lol. seriously though, it's a waste of money.

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