Gearbox help!

[mattybrown91]

I friend of mine has just put a 1.6 8v in a corsa and left his 1.2 gearbox on it and he says it makes his car faster is this the case or not ? and if it does would a Clio 1.2 gearbox go onto a 1.6 8v engine?

 

[Dan@SJM]

The Renault boxes don't really change ratios like the vauxhall stuff do.

 

[Russ_16v]

If the ratios are different in the vauxhall boxes then yes it would make the accelleration slightly better but may reduce top speed - depending how different the ratios are it could make normal driving annoying as where as before you were doing 70mph at 3000rpm for example, with the different box in you may be doing 70mph at 3500, maybe even higher.

But as Dan says Renault staff are faily similar, not worth the effort of swapping imo

 

[mattybrown91]

aw right cheers for that lads