CD009 Swap Guide 7/900 Edition.

[rb92673]

SerialNine ordered...hopefully it arrives before my next race. Shifter cost more than the transmission.

 

[poulrais]

SerialNine ordered...hopefully it arrives before my next race. Shifter cost more than the transmission.

They are on the West Coast so you should be ok?

 

[volvosruinedmylife]

Does anyone have the front mount autosports engineering shifter? Besides me?

 

[dalek]

Do you get to use first gear?

 

[volvosruinedmylife]

Do you get to use first gear?

Yes

 

[rb92673]

Ok, Serial9 installed. Next race is end of month. Haven't driven it outside of a parking lot, but it feels nice.

 

[rb92673]

Raced about 13 hours with the Serial9 installed. Worked great. Can recommend.

 

[JohnMc]

Does anyone have the front mount autosports engineering shifter? Besides me?

I replaced the *CRAPPY* CBF Performance front/top mount on mine with the Autosports Engineering shifter and it is IMMENSELY improved.

The CBF had a lot of wiggly vagueness, which was infuriating when the overall shift pattern with 6 gears on it was pretty small. And the slop only got worse with use.

I haven't had the Autosport Eng. shifter in for long, but it's solid feeling. The pivot ball is steel, welded to the shift rod, it will take a long time for any noticeable wear to make it looser. The CBF used a plastic ball on a pin on the shaft (one source of slop) interacting with pins in the housing (another source of slop).

Nice metallic click click click feel, nice tight shift pattern. Not quite as slick as the Miata's master class 6 spd shifter, but waaaaaaay nicer than it was.

Only thing I couldn't get working for some reason was the reverse gear lockout. The up and down spring motion of the stick didn't seem like it was enough to both have the pin engage the lockout plate, and move under it for reverse. I messed about with for a bit and then just left it off. I might try again later.

 

[rb92673]

Raced about 13 hours with the Serial9 installed. Worked great. Can recommend.

To be clear my experience was with a tail mount shifter in a 740 vs JohnMc's experience with a top mount.

 

[volvosruinedmylife]

Good info, when I installed my top mount I forgot to shorten the shifter detent, and forgot to remove metal in the case, so it comes out of 5th gear sometimes. Otherwise I love it. Need to drop the trans and so those things, would definitely make it more injoyable.

 

[Ju1cE]

Thank you. Now please do a 240 version

Thread 'White block w CD009 in a 200 series'
https://turbobricks.com/index.php?threads/white-block-w-cd009-in-a-200-series.360489/

Not quite as detailed but gets you started

 

[debolsonthatguy]

Raced about 13 hours with the Serial9 installed. Worked great. Can recommend.

its been a while, update please before i drop 600$ on this thing lol

 

[rb92673]

its been a while, update please before i drop 600$ on this thing lol

We have two races on it in our 740 Lemons racecar, it works great. I should have installed it a few years ago.

If you want to see 7 hours of it in use watch this. Mo is probably the hardest on it. Queued:

 

[debolsonthatguy]

We have two races on it in our 740 Lemons racecar, it works great. I should have installed it a few years ago.

If you want to see 7 hours of it in use watch this. Mo is probably the hardest on it. Queued:

Lovely

 

[mertz]

I would assume you can't get a 240mm TTV flywheel in under an M46 bellhousing?

 

[283SD]

Just rebuilt one for a friend. Had issues with the after market synchronized rings. Put it together,Had to take it apart and got rings from Nissan. They did not fit well, either but with a little machining got them to work.

 

[debolsonthatguy]

I would assume you can't get a 240mm TTV flywheel in under an M46 bellhousing?

pretty sure can, but not 100% sure mkm motorsport sells a kit that uses 240 for their bmw trans with m46/7 bell housing welded on it again not 100% sure