"kanadanmajava1" (kanadanmajava1)
07/18/2016 at 12:13 • Filed to: None
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"kanadanmajava1" (kanadanmajava1)
07/18/2016 at 12:13 • Filed to: None | 4
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About week ago I purchased a ZF transmission from a dismantling shop in Germany. I had been eyeing it for several months but I hesitated while trying to find a cheaper way to get it to Finland. Finally I just gave up and paid the hefty transportation fee (€250). The thing itself wasn’t very cheap either.
But now the big lump of metal is here. It’s a ZF GS6-53BZ and it used to move an e60 BMW 545i. Not very long though as the poor BMW was totaled after covering mere 50,000 km.
It’s one of the toughest manual transmissions that are available in production cars (rivaled by T56 family). I’m planning to bolt this behind an Atlas LL8/Vortec 4200 engine. I was very worried that the bellhousing wouldn’t clear the starter ring that is very large in this engine. It seems that it doesn’t but the interference is occurring only in couple of “easy to grind away places”.
So these two can be bolted together with a quite simple adapter. Now I just have to start measuring the bolt circles and drawing the adapter.
And will it fit in the car? Without cutting it doesn’t. This thing is big even though you cannot see it from the picture. I didn’t have anything to put besides it for comparison.
Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow
> kanadanmajava1
07/18/2016 at 12:20 |
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As an employee of ZF, I approve this post.
Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> kanadanmajava1
07/18/2016 at 12:30 |
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What’s this tranny going into?
I was in the gear shop a few weeks back and the guy, who is a big time expert, says that transmission is an absolute rock.
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kanadanmajava1
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/18/2016 at 14:32 |
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Its new home will be this thing (I know, it’s a slight blasphemy). The floor isn’t doing very well so it isn’t a big shame to cut more room for the the transmission. For some reason the transmission tunnel has been (literally) axed already.
The local enthusiast have been using GS6-53BZ (or -53DZ) from 3-series models in various purposes. They seem to be nearly bulletproof. Some Swedish guy has been pushing nearly 1200 Nm through these.
Usually the enthusiasts disassemble the transmission, cut off the old bellhousing and weld new to fit the engine. But alignment would require an empty block and suitable would be hard to find from here.
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> kanadanmajava1
07/18/2016 at 14:39 |
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I remember your earlier posts about this car. Nothing blasphemous about it, though you may have to endure some fist shaking from some Finns. Do you know the show, “Roadkill?”
That’s their General Mayhem, which received a new 700-hp Hellcat engine/transmission. I think your car may be in better shape.
“Roadkill” is an
excellent
show, by the way...
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kanadanmajava1
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/18/2016 at 15:06 |
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Yeah. My car does resemble the General Mayhem a lot with the mismatched body parts. I have counted that it has parts from at least 5 different cars. The right front fender is even from ‘68 Charger and it has a different shape sidemarker light.
My car might be partially better and partially worse. The passenger compartment floor is rusty as it had been parked out with windows down for quite long time. The rear window frame is probably the hardest thing to patch up. But in most areas the body is doing quite fine.
I did like General Mayhem a bit more when it was still car made with a low budget. The Hellcat engine taken from a pre-production car was quite different thing.
Generally the Finnish enthusiasts tolerate “wrong brand” engines. An SBC is nearly always accepted as a replacement engine.
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> kanadanmajava1
07/18/2016 at 15:23 |
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I have viewed all 53 episodes of “Roadkill” and I geek on their tweaks, but then I freak at the cost of some of the stuff they casually throw on. Like the MSI Atomic ignition, for example, at almost $3,000. And who has access to a Hellcat engine, pre-production or otherwise?
As far as the Finnish fist shaking, I was really just teasing you about having this big old American clunker on the road in a country that I assume to have higher standards for what’s allowed to be registered.
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kanadanmajava1
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/18/2016 at 15:32 |
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Our modifying laws are quite strict compared to the ones used the US. But in European level we have have good situation. Sweden is even more relaxed with modifying. In Germany you can do things that we cannot do but there it might become costly. You have to proof certain modifications with test reports.