Anyone with Quaife or other sequential box
Discussion
I have an S2 111S and am having the motorsport suspension done. My next thought was a Quaife sequential box and diff. Any comments. Is it unbearably noisy on the road. I do use my car pretty daily but had a Tuscan Speed six with the sliencers sleeved so I dont object to going deaf!!!
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Surfer, at first I missed the sheer grung and blood'n guts delivery of the Tuscan. But now (9 months on) the fun factor is higher in the Elise. It is a more pure driving experience and you can really push it much nearer its limits, on many favourite roads I know my corner speeds are higher and my straight line speeds are now slightly more acceptable and at least I will never go to prison for speeding in the Elise. In the Tuscan jail was always an option. So if I were you I would relax, enjoy and explore the Elise experience.
Steve Butts is fitting the Quaife one to his car at the moment - he hangs out on the Elise BBS at www.british-cars.co.uk
Believe it to be the first customer one in the UK
>> Edited by bogie on Thursday 5th June 23:56
Believe it to be the first customer one in the UK
>> Edited by bogie on Thursday 5th June 23:56
The car isn’t finished as yet, so I can’t comment on its abilities within the Atom. 
I did however drive an Elise with one, and I have to say it made a big difference. The car was fitted with a 215hp engine, and spun up so fast. So quick and precise gear changes added to an over whelming experience. This was however once you got used to the fact that it was actually you that was being precise!
There was little room for error, but get it right and it allowed the engine to spin up continuously. The gear lever had a micro-switch for clutch-less gear changes going up through the box, and it was a doodle. Just keep your foot planted and spank the lever. Its only when you realise that the engine is singing sweetly and sat in the upper segment of the powerband, and that there are no gears left, that hard acceleration suddenly becomes very easy.
In fact it is no different from a good bike box, it had a satisfying clunk when the new gear is engaged. Coming down again needed a little more work, but once I you were used to the new experience it became second nature to match gear speed to engine speed that little bit more accurately than with the road box.
All that said, the journalists had a drive with it and couldn’t get used to the whole concept, for town use. They didn’t take it on track, and neither have I….YET! but that will come soon. I thought it was great, and it bolts straight on to the engine. Unlike any of the other boxes. The quaife and hewland boxes I looked at would have required adapters and would have taken the weight higher than the original box.
So give them a shot. Go and visit them at the factory, the place is amazing, and makes your average factory look like the metalwork lab you had at school.
>> Edited by atom290 on Friday 6th June 09:01
I did however drive an Elise with one, and I have to say it made a big difference. The car was fitted with a 215hp engine, and spun up so fast. So quick and precise gear changes added to an over whelming experience. This was however once you got used to the fact that it was actually you that was being precise!
There was little room for error, but get it right and it allowed the engine to spin up continuously. The gear lever had a micro-switch for clutch-less gear changes going up through the box, and it was a doodle. Just keep your foot planted and spank the lever. Its only when you realise that the engine is singing sweetly and sat in the upper segment of the powerband, and that there are no gears left, that hard acceleration suddenly becomes very easy.
In fact it is no different from a good bike box, it had a satisfying clunk when the new gear is engaged. Coming down again needed a little more work, but once I you were used to the new experience it became second nature to match gear speed to engine speed that little bit more accurately than with the road box.
All that said, the journalists had a drive with it and couldn’t get used to the whole concept, for town use. They didn’t take it on track, and neither have I….YET! but that will come soon. I thought it was great, and it bolts straight on to the engine. Unlike any of the other boxes. The quaife and hewland boxes I looked at would have required adapters and would have taken the weight higher than the original box.
So give them a shot. Go and visit them at the factory, the place is amazing, and makes your average factory look like the metalwork lab you had at school.
>> Edited by atom290 on Friday 6th June 09:01
It is a tad scary!
The box was £8,000 +VAT when I bought it, but then they were taken over and I think the price went up to about £10,000
They liken themselves to x-trac more than quaife and hewland so they are priced accordingly
It is worth it, but remember that you have to also buy gear linkages and oil!!!
The box was £8,000 +VAT when I bought it, but then they were taken over and I think the price went up to about £10,000
They liken themselves to x-trac more than quaife and hewland so they are priced accordingly
It is worth it, but remember that you have to also buy gear linkages and oil!!!
Atom290 said: It is a tad scary!
The box was £8,000 +VAT when I bought it, but then they were taken over and I think the price went up to about £10,000
They liken themselves to x-trac more than quaife and hewland so they are priced accordingly
It is worth it, but remember that you have to also buy gear linkages and oil!!!
Thats all the detail I need.
I can't afford it!
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