Are there any companies that sell them fot the WRX 5mt?

www.gearboxtech.com has PPG ones, you'd have to contact them to see if they'd work with your gears. Those are the only ones that I am aware of.

Cool, thanx for pointing him out. I shot him an e-mail, hopefully his reply will be good news.

Many of the companies that make dog shift gearsets also supply stronger shift forks with them, usually made of bronze or brass or sometimes steel. This is because the forks take a lot of abuse in a dog box because you are slamming into to gear harder. The stock aluminum forks can't handle it for long and first the plastic wear pads get destroyed really quickly and eventually it's not hard to break a fork. I would not recommend any dog gearset that uses the stock shift forks. These stronger shift forks are usually machined to fit the geaset they come with and won't usually fit a stock synchro slider. If you need a stronger than stock shift fork for a synchro box then you are doing something wrong.

Cool to know. I always wondered how dudes with synchro transmission could break shift forks.

Dave, do the guy rally racin' with synchro transmissions and RA gears run stock forks?

Also, can the shift fork wear pads be replaced or do you have to replace the entire fork?

I'm not runnin' a dog-box and I'm pretty sure I messed up my 1-2 fork with a some spirited driving. So, might as well get a fork that'll last longer.

Cool to know. I always wondered how dudes with synchro transmission could break shift forks.

Dave, do the guy rally racin' with synchro transmissions and RA gears run stock forks?
Yes.


Also, can the shift fork wear pads be replaced or do you have to replace the entire fork?
No, the pads cannot be replaced. New fork time. Luckily they aren't terribly expensive. I liked the forks in the old Dodge FWD trannies better. They were steel and had replaceable plastic pads. You could also have all the guts stripped out of the tranny in about half an hour with the tranny still in the car.

It is possible to break a shift fork in a synchro box but you have to be abusing it pretty heavily. The Modena (aka: MRT "unbreakable") dogbox, which we have broken once or twice, by the way, uses the stock shift forks. We have broken one shift fork in this box and the plastic pads are always getting squished out. We're only using this tranny as a spare right now, though.