Toyota Supra in Stock Eliminator (Poll)

[Rory McNeil]

Originally Posted by J.R. Haddad

So the current hang up appears to be the transmission. Lets examine that.
There seems to be a want for the stock type of transmission case. So we
need a genuine Toyota Trans case. It can be done, no problem. We will
examine all the cases Toyota has produced for the last 20 years or so,
and settle on a few that appear to have approximately the same capacity
dimensions as a Metric 200, or a Turbo 350. The trans can then be sent
to any number of places, Pro Trans, Joel's, Coan, ATI, A-1, to have all of
todays aluminum drums, lightened gears, hardened shafts, etc. fitted to
the Toyota case. End result, a few thousand diehard, possibly anal, Stock
Racers( I include myself in that group) get to say, We showed him, he has
to run that Toyota trans. All we have done is put up one more barrier for
someone with the insight, foresight and intestinal fortitude to create this excellent idea, and instead of a transmission costing 10,000.00, it will be 20,000.00, but we will feel better. We are running our manufacturers cases, but we've got Chrysler, Ford, and Subaru derivative parts in them. But its in a stock appearing case. Who really cares? The stick cars run trans from 6 or 7 manufacturers, they don't resemble Muncies, Borg-Warners, Top-Loaders, or Chrysler crash boxes. The stick guys don't care, why do we?

J.R.

Since this Toyota/BMW/Ford/GM hybrid is supposed to be a Stock Eliminator car, I will not concern myself with the manual transmissions that Super Stock cars are allowed to run, but I can say that my Jericos very closely resembled a production Ford Toploader 4 speed, and my current G Force G101A 4 speed closely resembles a Borg Warner 4 speed, in both appearance, design, and function. The main benefit is the Jerico and G Force transmissions are stronger than the production transmissions, and like the automatics, are available with ratios more suitable for drag racing. Not to mention the last year that Ford installed a Toploader 4 speed in a production car was 1973, not 100 % positive, but I doubt that GM installed Muncies much later than that, same with MoPars A833, or the BW T10, which was only installed in some AMC cars, after Ford, GM, and Chrysler deemed the T10 too weak for their performance applications, so they all chose to invest in building their own 4 speed manual transmissions in the mid 60s.