Drivetrain 1988 T5 Grinding going into 2nd gear, '92 Camaro transmission swap or parts?

[pindude80]

Hello all,

I recently got my '88 Mustang GT running that I bought with a blown engine. When I went to test drive it after the new engine install I found out 2nd gear is very unhappy; it grinds most everytime I go to shift into 2nd and it doesn't feel like the shifter is pulling back as far as it should for 2nd. It shifts fine into all of the other gears. I am assuming the previous owner killed 2nd gear's synchro or bent a shifter fork; I'm leaning more towards a synchro.

My friend has a T5 out of a '92 Camaro RS 305 car that he said he would sell me cheap. I did a little research and it looks like the Camaro transmission will not bolt into the Mustang due to the transmission to bellhousing bolt pattern being different and the shifter is in a different postion because the tail housings are different. If this is the case does anyone know if the internals are the same and we can use the Camaro transmission to donate parts? If so, is the Camaro transmission "world class" like the Mustangs were?

 

[Mustang5L5]

Vast Majority of GM T5's were NON-WC.

The only vehicle GM installed the WC gearset in (2.95 ratio) was the 92-93 IROC Z. So that means the RS would have the NWC version. Way too many differences to use it for parts.

 

[pindude80]

Vast Majority of GM T5's were NON-WC.

The only vehicle GM installed the WC gearset in (2.95 ratio) was the 92-93 IROC Z. So that means the RS would have the NWC version. Way too many differences to use it for parts.

Ok, good to know, thanks for the reply and info!

 

[Mustang5L5]

Dig around a bit more. Looks like I was wrong and the WC T5 came behind 88-92 V8 camaros.

IROCs were all auto, so I was way off.


You may have to physically inspect the trans and look at the front bearing race to ID what it really is.

 

[General karthief]

Dig around a bit more. Looks like I was wrong and the WC T5 came behind 88-92 V8 camaros.

IROCs were all auto, so I was way off.


You may have to physically inspect the trans and look at the front bearing race to ID what it really is.

You're reputation has been tainted

 

[manicmechanic007]

My reputation is not only tainted, it's stained!
With a scattershield that GM T5 will fit the Mustang
I have a Lakewood bellhousing on my Boss 302 that has both patterns, and will fit a muncie or toploader, T-10 etc

 

[limp]

IROCs were all auto,

Just like all C8 corvettes... Whats this world coming to......

 

[Mustang5L5]

Despite being a GM owner/driver, i don't know why they do things the crazy way they do.

 

[AeroCoupe]

Man I sure want to say that the IROC-Z’s came with two motor and trans options starting in ‘87. The 350 TPI was auto trans only but the 305 TPI could be had with a 5 speed. Only remember this as my room mate in college had an ‘87 IROC-Z with the 305 TPI and auto and wished he had gotten a 5 speed. We even looked at swapping it but he didn’t have the funds.

 

[Mustang5L5]

I thought the IROC post 1987 was 5.7 only?

 

[AeroCoupe]

Did some more digging and found this. Scroll down to “Cronology” and click on 1987.

Chevrolet Camaro (third generation) - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[General karthief]

I don't need to know anything about camaros
Except maybe how far behind me they are.

 

[AeroCoupe]

Well being GM has now discontinued them twice I’d say the verdict is in.

 

[manicmechanic007]

Their values keep going up (Unless you have a Saleen, Shelby or Boss) Mustangs are nowhere near close on investment
Discontinuing vehicles is sometimes a sales gimmic
Take the T bird for instance
I bought my latest 68 Camaro for investment
Like I did my 69 Z-28 (best investment I made so far)
Well wait, My Boss 302 only cost me 1650 in 1979

 

[limp]

Here is a pic for you General.... Sure wish I still had this car... sold it, needed money to build a house for my EX wife to be and her new husband...
A friend from Oregon recently saw my old car at a gas station and talked to the owner... The guy who purchased it from me ( 1979) still has it...

 

[manicmechanic007]

OMG limp! and a LT-1? to boot
Here is my sorrow
Matching numbers DZ 302
Worth about 175 now, sold it for 15.5

 

[limp]

OMG limp! and a LT-1? to boot
Here is my sorrow
Matching numbers DZ 302
Worth about 175 now, sold it for 15.5

My car was a 73, so no LT-1.. Engine change that year....

 

[manicmechanic007]

I guess I should have known by that taller spoiler
Not real hip on those years differences all the way yet

 

[LILCBRA]

Seems to be a lot of sacrelige going on in this thread.....

 

[JD1964]

I like the 78-81 Z28’s. I like the molded in bumpers compared to the earlier versions of that generation