LT77 or R380.

[John Dolan - Wirral & North Wales AO]

Gearbox wanted, to suit Rover V8.

[JulianE]

I will pm you a number , Pete who I met via a Lemans trip said he has several lt77's

[John Dolan - Wirral & North Wales AO]

Pete has three boxes, condition unknown. He's in Gloucester, I'm on the Wirral.

Would prefer a box with known history. And a bit closer.

[John Dolan - Wirral & North Wales AO]

Still looking.

[John Dolan - Wirral & North Wales AO]

Bump.

[John Dolan - Wirral & North Wales AO]

Bumpety bump.

[Steven Thorne]

There are a couple of reconditioned ex military R380's on the Witham Specialist Vehicles site that might be worth a look.

[6carjon]

Plenty on ebay

[John Dolan - Wirral & North Wales AO]

On 07/10/2017 at 17:45, Steven (Steve T) - Joint Thames Valley AO said:

There are a couple of reconditioned ex military R380's on the Witham Specialist Vehicles site that might be worth a look.

 

On 07/10/2017 at 17:55, 6carjon said:

Plenty on ebay

 

Thanks guys. Needs to be a 2wd box, not a Land Rover, they are a bit harder to find.

 

[6carjon]

I checked the pistonheads TVR forum but nothing showing there - might be worth a post as lots of these come from Griffiths and Chims etc.

Just post an ask on their forum.

You could convert to a T5 they are a nicer box overall if you can engineer it to fit.

Mine does.

 

Cheers Jon

 

Cheers Jon

[John Dolan - Wirral & North Wales AO]

First choice - T5 - mega expensive, hard to find.

Second choice - R380 - nice, but not from a Land Rover as the conversion to 2wd is prohibitively expensive.

Third choice - LT77 - not quite as nice, weaker synchros and lots of variations.

Another possibility is the RX8 6 speed box, plenty about and they are (relatively) cheap. Needs an adaptor plate to mate the Mazda bell housing to the Rover engine. Not as silly as it first sounds. Propshaft might be the problem. Anyone done this?