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What are you experiences?
Im sick of buying t-5s.

http://www.astroperformance.com/product_info.php/manufacturers_id/29/products_id/207

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I got one of those. all the gears are actually a little larger then the G-force stuff, especially the first gear (G-force the uses a weaker Z-spec 1st gear instead of the larger 9310 alloy 1st that Astro uses.

heres a pic of the G-Force kit, notice the space in between the gears (2nd/3rd)
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Heres the Astro A5 kit the gears are a little thicker, and the first gear is an actual upgraded gear unlike the Gforce 2.95 Z-spec gear (1st gear is all the way to the right)
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[ May 17, 2010, 10:32 AM: Message edited by: 68stanger ]

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Ya i think im gonna go Astro.
Thanks for the pics.

How DD friendly is this kit?

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quote:
Originally posted by threethirty1:
Ya i think im gonna go Astro.
Thanks for the pics.

How DD friendly is this kit?

it shifts exactly the same.
your only changing to stronger gears, the synchros, bearings, etc are all stock pieces.

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Nice, how hard is the swap?

You seem to know alot!

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quote:
Originally posted by threethirty1:
Nice, how hard is the swap?

You seem to know alot!

I been building T5's for awhile, so its not that big of a deal anymore (difficulty).

if you can rebuild a T5, you can assemble an Astro A5 kit no problem, there exactly the same, except the gears. lol

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Ive looked at these in the past and it seems to work well according to a buddy of mine.

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I just got a tko 600 and was done!

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^^^ ya u can do that but i kinda like the stock shifting feel and not the more notchy feel of the TK0s but either way u get used to it
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quote:
Originally posted by blown95svt:
I just got a tko 600 and was done!

How do the tko 600's shift as compared to the A-5's?

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quote:
Originally posted by Jumpinjoe:
quote:
Originally posted by blown95svt:
I just got a tko 600 and was done!

How do the tko 600's shift as compared to the A-5's?
the Tko's use brass synchro rings. because of that thay don't shift as well as a T5 or a t56 at the higher RPM's

Astros/stock T5's use fiber lined rings. those style of rings do alot better job compared to the brass style.

they sell the fiber lined rings seperate for the TKO trans, but its big dollars and for what they are asking it ain't worth it.

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quote:
Originally posted by 68stanger:
quote:
Originally posted by threethirty1:
Ya i think im gonna go Astro.
Thanks for the pics.

How DD friendly is this kit?

it shifts exactly the same.
your only changing to stronger gears, the synchros, bearings, etc are all stock pieces.

Ive done most of the work on my car. But never worked on a t-5 before.
Do you give lessons? lol

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