close ratio dog box ..
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keep you all in touch, you will all be wanting one! 
testing it this weekend.... watch this spaceSurely the gear you want a syncro on most is first, not fifth!? Otherwise massive crunching every time you get into gear from a standstill.
James' was a development box. Not sure if the same guy who built it is also doing the TVR CR ones. Judging by the fact they're about 2 years late on ever getting one out the door, I guess it hasn't been that successful. Several people with development TVR CR boxes have had several blow up before going back to standard.
Personally, given the huge torque above 4.5k, is a CR box really that helpful on the road? On a fast circuit maybe (I loved the one in the topcats Tuscan race car at bedford).
danny
James' was a development box. Not sure if the same guy who built it is also doing the TVR CR ones. Judging by the fact they're about 2 years late on ever getting one out the door, I guess it hasn't been that successful. Several people with development TVR CR boxes have had several blow up before going back to standard.
Personally, given the huge torque above 4.5k, is a CR box really that helpful on the road? On a fast circuit maybe (I loved the one in the topcats Tuscan race car at bedford).
danny
come on danny you know you want one really!! 
Not sure about the synchro on fifth, but from conversation earlier it's helical and the first four gears are straight cut with dog clutches (synchro on 1st would be an advantage), as 5th is on it's own on the rear of the casing it's probably left alone for quiet cruising. I reckon it's gonna be a scream (literally), with those reduced drive losses of a couple of percent all through the rev range it'll help acceleration from tickover to redline so that's enough justification to me .. yippee. can't wait to have a go
Not sure about the synchro on fifth, but from conversation earlier it's helical and the first four gears are straight cut with dog clutches (synchro on 1st would be an advantage), as 5th is on it's own on the rear of the casing it's probably left alone for quiet cruising. I reckon it's gonna be a scream (literally), with those reduced drive losses of a couple of percent all through the rev range it'll help acceleration from tickover to redline so that's enough justification to me .. yippee. can't wait to have a go
I loved the one in the topcats Tuscan race car at bedford
I thought it was great too, especially fourth-to-fifth, which came up frighteningly quickly on the straights and hardly seemed to drop the revs at all leaving you nicely in the power band (unlike my V8S, where there's quite a noticeable step up to fifth).
Having a really close ratio box also helps when you go from second to fifth by mistake (ahem!)
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