Ok well it seems to me that I have grinded my 3rd gear WAY too much (in the process of learning stick). It feels rough (very rough) going into gear and I suspect that I have knocked a tooth or two off my synchro and/or my gear itself.

mods:
ganzflow
catback exhaust
UDP
toyo t1-s (205/50/16)

I have other mods, but thats all the preformance mods, the rest are changes in the looks of the car.


Would it be feasible to get new gears cast in titanium? Or if I bought the gears out of a used/ trashed 2.5rs, and had them cryo treated? Help me out...

incase your wondering why im posting at 4am...im just now going to bed after a night of "driving". :D; I plead the 5th, hehe.

thanks,
-justin

Titanium gears eh? I suppose it is possible, though I wouldn't consider it a feasible solution. ($$)

You could definitely take the gears out of another RS, but I don't know that cryo treating will be the way to go. My car has been in the shop for a faulty 5th gear synchro hub and they said that 5th was notched like the gear itself was a soft material :( Cyro might help some.

What is your ultimate power goal?

I know Paul Eklund cryo-treated his legacy turbo tranny on his rally car only to immediately destroy one of his gears.

-Jon
www.nothingserious.net

It's not good to cryo treat gears. They are made sort of soft in order to have a little flex. Cryo treat them and they are more prone to shear.

yea the gears in our cars arn't even metal i don't think. They are some kind of carbon fiber or fiberglass I think. either that or they are coted with something like that.

Damn can't remember where i heard that.
Oh well if I'm wrong some one will catch me.
Later
Mike:)

can't actually do any damage to the gears themselves, technically. :)

all gears are always meshed with one of the shafts in the tranny (sorry, forget the name, layshaft, maybe). It was either the dogteeth or the synchros that damage may have been done to. Most likely, it's the synchros, though...

what would have caused this, though? Even being new to a standard, so long as you push the clutch in when you are going to change gears, you shouldn't be able to damage anything in the tranny under normal driving...

Well I think as I was upshifting to 3rd I let off the clutch to early before I had it all the way in the gear.

My power goal might be to get cams and/or a torque chip in the future & in the FAR future I wanna get turbo OR get a wrx (its easier to mod a turbo car for power). I love my car though and I SEVERELY doubt I will get rid of it anytime soon, and I can say that even IF I had a job making a TON of money to afford say a bimmer or what not. I love this car & I am not going to get rid of it anytime soon (unless i wreck ;) *crosses fingers*.

Thanks for the replies...

Oh and I just sorta know a guy in a shop that could do the titanium gears...but like If I could afford it (dunno the price yet ;) ), would they help?; b/c like you peeps said the cryo treating wouldnt help...

thanks for helping!,
-justin

OH kickarse! sorry mods didnt know there was such a forum ;). I was like where the heck did this get moved to?? :lol:
thanks...

-justin

Well no harm done... the forum was just born... ;)

-Nick

hope I never wreak my box.

hope I never wreak my box
Yeah, a reeking box is not a good thing.

Reeking box? Not-so-fresh-feeling? Try Summers Eve maybe.