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Loltus Exige

So I have found a sequential.

Snag is its inside this


Guy wont break the car ( fair enough ) but I will.

Anyone want the car above with a LSD equipped C64? Ill be taking the sequential / GCU / gear light etc.
I want a seq too, dying for one in fact and trying to make the man maths work. HGT in NZ do a kit for mine but it’s £14k. Ouch
 
Would it not be easier to swap the innards with a kit from Quaife??????????
Yes, however you cant.

You have to buy the gearset.
Send it to quaife
Pay them to fit it
Buy the extra bits such as gearbox control unit , shifter , gear selector.

You cannot buy the gearset alone and the other bits are frighteningly expensive
 
What’s the box Andy? I’ll ask my co worker who used to work at Ricardo. He was part of the development for the Valkyrie gearbox. He may now of something. Worth an ask anyway.
 
Asked if he knows anything about a C64 box but doesn’t unfortunately.
Thanks anyway!

Its pretty much quaife or no-one for these. Whilst quaife box isnt exactly affordable its not £14k+vat either!

The car above is the solution, just need someone to offer to buy it!
 
@andybond . Are you planning to make this car competiton only? I ask as my mate used to Tarmac Rally a Darrian with a Hewland TMT and Geartroniks kit. It was a superb piece of kit, and while it was possible to drive it on the road, it was not friendly. It was truly mindblowing how fast it could sprint to terminal velocity and back down, but it was only happy while either accelerating fast or slowing down fast. Trying to slow shift like you would do with a car on the road does not work out. Have you had some personal experience of this? You need to like stripping and building it as it will need periodic dog ring replacement to keep it working correctly depending on your driving style. Thats why roadcars have never went down this route as it is not friendly at all.
Seen a few pals go down this route on various cars over the years, but even on hillclimb/sprint cars most reverted to synchro as more user friendly if the car has to be road driven.
 
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@andybond . Are you planning to make this car competiton only? I ask as my mate used to Tarmac Rally a Darrian with a Hewland TMT and Geartroniks kit. It was a superb piece of kit, and while it was possible to drive it on the road, it was not friendly. It was truly mindblowing how fast it could sprint to terminal velocity and back down, but it was only happy while either accelerating fast or slowing down fast. Trying to slow shift like you would do with a car on the road does not work out. Have you had some personal experience of this? You need to like stripping and building it as it will need periodic dog ring replacement to keep it working correctly depending on your driving style. Thats why roadcars have never went down this route as it is not friendly at all.
Seen a few pals go down this route on various cars over the years, but even on hillclimb/sprint cars most reverted to synchro as more user friendly if the car has to be road driven.
Hi Steve.

It will be my trackday toy.

I have taken some advice from the helpful chaps at geartronics who strongly recommend even when at 10/10ths not to flat shift on downchanges.

Quaife recommend every 2nd season or 12000mi whichever comes soonest for a box check.

I know about the transmittion shunt and the whining ( box not wallet ) but I am ok with this. Its truly an itch I would like to scratch. If its shocking, Ill sell it and go back to a H pattern c64.
 
The shunt will loosen your teeth on the road. It is excellent at what it does best, maximum acceleration/ deceleration . What I would call normal driving does not work . No way you get 12000 miles out of the rings. Lewis or Max might manage 1200 cos their the best in the world, if you are a bit kak handed 200 miles. They can be very labour intensive once the corners are damaged it's game over.
Can you find someone with one and get a spin in it. Sometimes daydreams can become nightmares.....
 
The shunt will loosen your teeth on the road. It is excellent at what it does best, maximum acceleration/ deceleration . What I would call normal driving does not work . No way you get 12000 miles out of the rings. Lewis or Max might manage 1200 cos their the best in the world, if you are a bit kak handed 200 miles. They can be very labour intensive once the corners are damaged it's game over.
Can you find someone with one and get a spin in it. Sometimes daydreams can become nightmares.....
Sadly I cant find anyone who has one in. :(

They are rare as hens teeth!
 
@andybond . here is a clip of Said Mate's Darrian.



Being an electronics man the sound feed is patched into the intercom , so the noise you hear on the video is what it is like in the car wearing a helmet and earplugs. To work well the gears have to be bloody close stacked I think Bruce had it geared for about 135mph at 8000-8500 in 6th . Like a motorcycle the gears have to be super close to minimise the speed differentials on the change . The blip on the downshift is provided by the Geartroniks kit and works beautifully when you're standing on the brake , but normal slowing down tends to produce a less than perfect downshift.
I am not explaining myself well here I know. The harder you drive the better it works - normal driving = does not work at all well. Esp slowing down
 
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