yeah i didnt make mine, bought it off kelway when he was selling random parts. I think you can use an auto ae71 crossmember and modify that. once i know mine is 100% i have another unmodified crossmember that i will sell
btw yours looks sturdy
Wow dude that looks awesome, I probably should have tried to source a factory cross member to modify.
This is how mine turned out, big learning curve for me.
yeah i didnt make mine, bought it off kelway when he was selling random parts. I think you can use an auto ae71 crossmember and modify that. once i know mine is 100% i have another unmodified crossmember that i will sell
btw yours looks sturdy
picked this thing up locally for cheeep
has this adapter plate:
$100 USD not toooo bad.
works with standard T50 4AGE bellhousing and W5X trans. T50 fork
apparently i got this transmission from this guy:
and he had some trouble with sourcing his own hardware and having to grind down the back side of the GTS bellhousing.
he had it in his GZE RA celica for some time, but sold it cheap to me because 4th gear was going out, and went with niteparts bellhousing for bigger clutch. i couldn't pass on a $100 tranny + adapter plate + GTS bellhousing deal.
Im trying to go about this on the CHEAP. like cheap resplined clutch, front halfshaft celica. only issue i have is the cross member. whats best/cheapest way? heard some people mention of automatic trans cross members?
edit: found someone confirming it works:
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while that is dirt cheap the problem is it only suits the steel case W50 and not the W55 to 59. I don't know about there but here they arn't easy to come by and they are 45kg. I don't know if the auto crossmemebr would work, depends on if it has the same mounts as the later W boxes.
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W-series transmissions all share same bellhousing (transmission side) bolting pattern.
they are similar, only differ in gearings, shifter positioning, and in my case with the w50, the steel casing.
when im not so broke, i'll bite the bullet and buy a proper w-series transmission w/o the steel case.
are you sure about that because from what I thought was right is they are all the same bar the W50 which shares nothing
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hmmm.. double checked my stuffs and i guess the steel case box (w50) is shorter than its siblings...
BUT. i have no doubt that i will have issues swapping transmissions to an alum casing w-series tranny; because this is a popular swap to do with the east coast USA drag racing corollas that boost their 3TCs and such. and they're popping wheelies with W58s.
Last edited by mikeyee; 9th October 2011 at 05:33 PM. Reason: grammar. shit
I too think you will find that the adapter you have will not suit the W55-W59 gearboxes.
I think the only thing similar between a W50 and a W55 is the letter W in the name, none of the rest of the parts are interchangable.
awe man, did more digging. and i lose. apparently the american east coast dudes stick with the steel case w50 because stronger, lasts more wheelies
im going to call BRD tomorrow and see if there is a way to get the adapter plate to work with a w58, since it's advertised to work universally....
I was talking to a guy that works with me on projects and it looks like he won't be finished his designed, construction, testing and then mass production of these adapter plates till roughly the end of the year, so I can't help you for a while.
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