<VV> 3-speed automatic trans.

[tony.underwood at cox.net]

---- John Kepler <jekepler at amplex.net> wrote: 
> >...well, if you have the money and the facilities (aka complete machine
> shop) I suppose a TH-350 could be modded but it would NOT be a task for the
> faint of heart...
> >
> 
> 
> People that say things like this have never attempted to precision machine
> ANY hunk of AISI 4140 alloy steel (the stuff those gears are made of), let
> alone something like a reversed ring & pinion set!  Then there's the
> heat-treat issue.....and man, you have one hell of a "complete machine shop"
> if you can handle that too!

Uh, they wouldn't have to do anything that wasn't done to the BW T-5 gearbox for the 5-speed mods other than fabricating converter shafts.  



> Oh....and to answer the next inevitable question.....you COULD get someone
> like Webster Gear to make you a gear set....I had them do it for our
> race-car transmissions 20 years ago.....$10,000 a set, minimum order of 3
> sets!


You wouldn't NEED gear sets...  any more than the T-5 needs gear sets.   


What are you talking about as far as needing gear sets??


tony..