Identifying a sport box when off the car.....

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Post Wed May 04, 2005 7:23 pm

so how do i do this without having to rotate inout shaft and count and calculate ratios.....?????

is there any pattern to the numbers...

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Post Wed May 04, 2005 8:22 pm

hang on mate i have this somewhere. The sport boxes start with their own numbers
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Post Wed May 04, 2005 8:24 pm

Mine's got 260.0.1346.91 cast into the bell housing.

Not sure if that tell us anything though :lol:
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Post Wed May 04, 2005 8:29 pm

I had a sport box and a normal box and both had identical markings.
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Post Wed May 04, 2005 9:02 pm

the bellhouseing numbers have identical numbers.

you need to look at the number at the end of the box, below the output shaft. normally covered in crap.
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Post Wed May 04, 2005 9:08 pm

i have the numbers but cannot think where they are! sorry
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Post Wed May 04, 2005 10:02 pm

Ah HA!

Right, wiped the crap off and lo-and behold:

260.0.1060.91 :)
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