Using FD2R 5.062 Final Drive?

[Norm]

Would be a very nice transmission upgrade. Maybe we'll wait untill my gearbox needs to be rebuilt eh?

Norm

[plAythiNG]

I got to drive a friends car last night.

Exedy stage II
Exedy lightened flywheel 3.7kg or 3.8kg
5.1 FD
TSX 6th

Current Mods include Injen CAI, Toda Header, Amuse catback.

First impression.. WOW! The extra accelration is great! From 2k onwards it just picks up, i reckon it accelrates faster then my car with kpro. The shifting is the same, but so much quicker in accelration. The exedy clutch felt great and i was a bit skeptical to the 3.7/3.8kg flywheel too but it felt very easy to drive. I even had a pair of nike runners on which have rather thick soles, compared to the majority of other shoes i wear, i thought i would have struggled driving his car...even when i drove stevans car with the jdmflywheel at 4.7 kg, first impressions with that is it felt quite light. It was harder for me to adjust driving his car then my friends.

I will remain with a stock k20 for a long time and im now confident that the shorter fd and lighter then stock flywheel will bring me much more accelration! - without going over the top

Since my car is tuned, not sure if i should keep the jdm flywheel or opt for the exedy lightweight?

I want to drive his car again and pay more attention to certain rpm at particular speeds and compare it to my car.

[paulcurr]

hi guys bringing this one back from the dead as am looking to throw in LSD/5.1FD/TSX 6th gear soon.

I read somewhere that you'd need to change out the 5th gear for the TSX 5th in order to change out 6th, is this true?

[plAythiNG]

Hey mate,

Is there a source to back this up? Shak's car has the 6th gear from a tsx and there was no mention of 5th being changed. One of my mates is currently performing the swap and no hiccups have arisen also.

Got a link to the source?

[paulcurr]

http://www.kseriesparts.com/cr/transinfo.html

definitley to just swap out the 6th, just wanted to make sure i had all the right parts + info

[paulcurr]

**happy to

[plAythiNG]

That link is to install both a 5th and 6th from the TSX.

Im sure you wont need anything changed ont he 5th gear ring/gears to bring in a taller ratio 6th gear from the TSX.

[plAythiNG]

Also, I find it really silly to think why people go thru the effort of changing the 5th gear jsut to get better gas mileage..... Thats why you change 6th gear lol....

[butter]

nothing stopping you using 5.1 with a k24 but i'd say with the extra torque launching/taking off, first gear would become a bit of an issue, or a bit useless

I will be running a FD5.08 and TSX 6th gear soon on my K24.
So I shall report back on how much of a mistake this was.

My expectations is that I will have made my 1st gear and 2nd gear redundant.
But I never plan on launching the car anyway.

FYI, the Final Drive was ~$600, TSX 6th gear was ~$250 and labour was ~250.
(note I had removed the gearbox from the car, to save on labour costs)

[ChargeR]

Also, I find it really silly to think why people go thru the effort of changing the 5th gear jsut to get better gas mileage..... Thats why you change 6th gear lol....

It's silly to change ratios just for better highway fuel economy, lower RPM does not guarantee less fuel consumption.

[plAythiNG]

It's silly to change ratios just for better highway fuel economy, lower RPM does not guarantee less fuel consumption.

regardless the k20 sets at 3300rpm @ 110km/h, couple that with the 5.1FD it will be higher which is why I opted for the tsx 6th to bring the revs back down to a lower rpm.

[plAythiNG]

I will be running a FD5.08 and TSX 6th gear soon on my K24.
So I shall report back on how much of a mistake this was.

My expectations is that I will have made my 1st gear and 2nd gear redundant.
But I never plan on launching the car anyway.

FYI, the Final Drive was ~$600, TSX 6th gear was ~$250 and labour was ~250.
(note I had removed the gearbox from the car, to save on labour costs)

k20 head? yeah I never would drema of runnig the 5.1FD on the k24 lol, I would imagine 1st would be useless but keen to hear your thoughts on 2nd gear..

[ChargeR]

regardless the k20 sets at 3300rpm @ 110km/h, couple that with the 5.1FD it will be higher which is why I opted for the tsx 6th to bring the revs back down to a lower rpm.

Yep and driver comfort is a good reason to do it, I just didn't want anyone assuming that lower revs = less fuel consumption on the highway .

[ob3d]

Yup.. No hiccups with the 5.1 FD and sixth gear swap. It's already done and didn't need the tsx fifth.



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[paulcurr]

Keen to see how this would affect launch on k24

Wow always thought that lower rpm translated to higher mileage