Freeway use final drives - All sold

[Sean1380]

Hi guys

I have a mate in the UK who is having a major clean up, and has some crown wheel and pinions that may be of interest to us in SA.

As you are aware, our local Minis tend to run out of revs on the freeway, the 3.44 final drive in our local 1275 means you are doing around 4,600 rpm at 120kph (not sure of exact number, but am sure Boyscout or Miniac will know). and our little short stroke 1100s generally have a 3.76 diff  which means probably close to 5,000 rpm at 120.

So my mate is stripping 3.1s, 3.2s and 2.9 CWP out of gearboxes.

Now to put this into perspective, a 3.2 will drop your revs in top by about 320 rpm, and a 3.1 will drop it by over 400rpm.

The longer 2.9 is really only suited to Minis with good powerful torquey engines, and not those running hairy arsed cams such as a 286 or a 296, as it will make traffic a bit of a pain in the behind :-) as it will drop your 4th gear revs at 120 by over 700 rpm.

So with this all in mind, there will be limited stock, so i just want names and diff sizes at the moment.

Prices still to be confirmed though.

Thanks