T50


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It’s open and I’ve counted teeth.  Lets do a bit of calculating before continuing on.  Count six pairs of gears.  From left to right they are: input to layshaft gear set, 3rd, 2nd, 1st, reverse, and fifth.  Note that there is no fourth gear.  The fourth gear selector, far left, simply locks the input shaft to the output shaft for […]

Counting Teeth – T50 Tech


Surprises me how small a T50 is.  The appearance of it is normally dominated by the easily removable bell housing and shifter section, and without it looks very small and easy.  I’m totally ready to rip this thing open and at least brainstorm some ghetto/hack close ratios for it.  I’ve been browsing/asking in Japanese recently… mostly about the 12354 patterns […]

Barrel of Speed



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Somewhere along the way I committed myself to maintaining 4AG power.  Not only that… probably 16V 4AG power.  NA as well of course.  With this in mind, I’ve been browsing over the last few weeks for real gearing answers for the T50… or even for another similarly sized transmission (as committed as I am to 4AG, I am not nearly […]

Low Power Winning 3 – with Low Funds 2


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Stock W58, 4.3 gears and 195/60 14 RubberToyota had love for the W Transmission. Various versions were used over 34 years of production. That is sick! And it means there are tonnes of variations and gearsets available for us to potentially play with and perhaps make a real close ratio gear box. Well... almost... or so it appears. First of all... I couldn't find solid documentation on the early W4X and up to W52 transmissions, but they look to offer additional ratios that may or not be helpful. How those ratios would play out with W55 or 58 input shaft ratio's though was unclear. Someone is going to have to pull one apart and figure it out. [...]

Lower Power Winning 2 – Gear Ratios



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A Normal T50 with 4.30 Gears and 195/60 14 RubberAt 3AM when Hinata-chan is balling, and I can't justify a trip to the garage, I started playing GT4 again. Driving simulator games, especially GT4, are sweet and lame at the same time. Sweet in that they've helped me think a lot about real driving when I haven't in a long time, but lame in that, the time I have spent playing seems entirely wasteful, and I'd much rather have spent the time wrenching or... turning the wheel. But my mission since I re-started playing GT4 has been to go as far as possible with an NA AE86. In the end, it hasn't been that far, but I'll say... that I've been able to go a lot further than initial impressions gave, and it's all a result of spending time tuning gear ratios for particular tracks. The difference has actually been spectacular, and it's lead me to think more seriously about real life gear ratios and what can be done about them. [...]

Low Power Winning – Gear Ratios