I d try get a marea gearbox mate.give responsive acceleration,but only downfall is u lose a bit of top end speed.Altho,i wudnt say u do tbh,ive had 32 outa mine and the statts on the 147 are 130 top speed.Suppose it does go on air flow and the right exhaust.
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Re: Gearbox...!!!
January 11 2009, 5:16 PM
Given that all the 20v engines have so much power/torque to spare - and I'm assuming that you hav'nt driven at over 125 MPH recently, then why worry about differing gear ratios? Finding a 'box in good condition must be much more important...
Bear in mind that early 20v cars had a different design of gearbox. According to FIAT at the time the brand new gearbox that replaced it, (around 1998 sometime) was stronger and had a sweeter gearchange - though that may have been just improved linkage.