ARYANW

i didnt really know where to post this but i know of a guy around here with a turbo fox but rumor says hes running a t5 tranny from a 4 banger because " the gearings better" the other night he ran low7's in the 1/8 on street tiresand ive been told that the 4cyl. t5s can only handle about 250hp. do yall throw the BS flag.... or whats going on? lol

mjr46

it all depends on how you hammer it off the line....if he has some turbo lag he might be able to do it as it really won't hit hard off the line which is where most breaks will occur...zachwo4stang with 275 rwhp hammered hard on a 4cyl tranny for a long time and didn't break it

1988TTOP

u can run a 4 banger trans in a 5.0 but there are not very storng but then again the 5.0 trans anit

ARYANW

i know you can bolt one up but is the gearing that much better? why would he risk using that tranny with 650-700 hp?

mjr46

if it blows it blows....most 4cyl trannies are geared low in 1st..mine had a 3.94 first gear=useless with 3.73 rear, and when I had it in my 5.0 conversion project for a while it felt more like a road race tranny since all ratios were close together even 5th didn't feel like much of an overdrive with a 5.0 in it

ARYANW

so what could someone do to beef up a 4 cyl. tranny a lil bit to be stronger than a v8 without spending enough money to buy a WC or something like that

NastyNate65

Rebuild it. Thats what I'm doing, and it only costs like 250 bucks

mjr46

rebuilding it doesn't beef it up.......about all you could do is add a steel input retainer and carbon fiber blocker rings......but ratios are unique to 4 popper traanny so no reall gear upgrades to strengthen it....the guy is blowin smoke up your rear if he says it's beefed up!!!

ARYANW

so if I added those parts to my 4 cyl. t5 how do you think think that will hold up behind my 351w N/A maybe nitrous later...i have a 4 cyl. t5 and a t5 from a 93gt.both im keeping but which one would you guys recommend? dont have money for the tranny i want yet but just for now.