Quote Originally Posted by aLmk View Post
Thanks! The biggest difference between the gear sets is going to be the 2nd to third shift at redline. With your EP3 trans you land in third at ~5800rpm my RSX trans with 4.7 FD will land me at ~5500rpm. The difference between where I land in second and where you land in second is only ~30rpm. And where you land in 4th and up is the same since the ratios for gears 3-5 are the same and I'm using the same FD as you, the 4.7, not the 4.3 that comes stock in the base rsx trans. I really hope they just aren't overall too long for my power. I really am not making the power to necessitate doing over 140mph in 4th gear. I will trap at best in the 120 area I'm imagining. But for the price and given the situation I didn't really have any better options unfortunately. The only z3 trans I found ended up appearing to have some damage to second gear (the exact gear I need replaced, so we wouldn't even be able to swap gears around to get a workable trans) and when I asked the seller for more upclose pics of what appeared to be some damage on second gear (was blurry bc zoomed up so much) he never got back to me, its been a few days too. Probably was damaged and he wasn't too interested in lowering his asking price of $1000 shipped.
It sounds like a dick move but you should have asked him about it in the thread he was selling it in, i hope he doesn't screw someone else over. The pictures you posted had a serious nick...it would be an inevitable failure if it went into a boosted car...or any car driven hard.