SADLOTUS wrote:Blimey! If we're going down this road how about a Caterham 6 Speeder or Quaife sequential gearbox?
Notwithstanding the fact that I detect a certain tongue-in-cheek element here, I think we've got to remember that most people fit 5-speeds to Elans because the car is woefully short-geared for modern
road use, and they want to give more relaxed cruising potential.
The Caterham box still has direct top (1:1 ratio),
just like the Elan 4 speed , so won't offer any benefit unless you can also find an ultra-tall final drive ratio to combine with them. I looked at this box myself and discarded the idea for this very reason - I couldn't find anyone who could supply a tall enough CWP for the English diff to make it worthwhile.
The suggestions of competition boxes are even less practical. They share the same ratio problems, for the most part, but being straight cut are
excruciatingly noisy (even at high speed in my Westfield, both exhaust and wind noise are drowned out by the scream of the straight-cut gears!) and dog engagement is not at all traffic-friendly, whether or not the selection is sequential.