Went over this afternoon and picked the old girl up.
As well as the gearbox conversion I also had a lighter flywheel (5.9kg compared to 9.9kg original) put in, and a quickshift fitted.
Gears took a bit of getting used to as the gate is very tight. To begin with I had lots of missed/wrong gears, but about halfway through the journey I started to get the hang of it, and she loosened up a bit so was getting the right gear every time.
The 5th gear is great - at 3400rpm I'm now hitting 80mph as opposed to 65mph (GPS Speed). With the lighter flywheel she spins up much faster, but still idles nicely and handles traffic well (Northampton was crawling speed through roadworks and traffic lights). Could easily pull away from about 20mph in 5th.
Very happy with all the work that's been done, and the resulting improvements on performance and drivability (Big thank you to Simon).
Only issue is the speedo - she's now over-reading by about 40% rather than 10%! Hopefully we may be able sort it with speedo drive changes or worst case, a speedo recalibration.
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Glad you liked it!
as I said, I wasn’t wholly happy with the gear change
I’ll get a stock lever ordered up tomorrow, and we’ll see if that improves matters
I think with the quick shift, and the shortened lever to fit, and the crank on the lever, it all kind of mucks up the geometry of the shift
My old Capri was delicious to run up and down the box- but they may be tinted by 30 years of fond memories…..
