T-5 Z-Spec Transmission?

[Schlodes]

I bought a brand new T5-Z in fall 2002.

It's seen tons of street powershifting, 2 track visits with slicks and I drive the absolute fuzznuck out of it at the track. I was getting a bark out of the slicks on every upshift yesterday... It probably has 20000 KMs on it now.

My take is that if you have a T5 or a T5 Z it will last a long while.. maybe into the 10s even, if its an all motor car, because the tranny destroying 500-600 FT LBs of torque from the power adder is not there.

Once you have a blower/turbo/decent sized shot of nitrous... even on a bone stock motor, it's on borrowed time because even then no matter the power adder you are close to if not more than 400 ft lbs @ the tires to boot.. anyways..

And I think nitrous kills the T5s the fastes because its shocking the trans every time it turns on in each gear.

 

[ironmedic]

i read about these guys who have a semi-stock 302 with a turbo pushing 450-550lbs of torque thanks to 6-8psi of boost. i might as well get the tko500 for my project.

 

[Icepick]

My T5z has been running fine since i put it in about 10 months ago. I've been running drag radials on it as a daily driver and it's been great. I run the car hard and have a decent amount of power so i think it's a pretty strong tranny but i don't powershift it either.

 

[281pony]

thanks for the replies.

well i bought the transmission. i paid 700 for it with 200 miles on it.

it has the 2.95 first which i liked as someone else pointed out, and he had the syncro's modified, plus the OD gear is 0.58 instead of 0.68 or whatever the stock t-5 is. so this should work really well with my 3:55's. all the work was done by D&D Performance for a sponcered driver too, so i think its a pretty good deal?