T56 and a T56 Z06 gearing?
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I was wondering if anybody has rebuilt a T56 out of an Fbody with the guts of a Z06 T56. The Gears are lower in the Z06 tranny, seems it would help get ours into the powerband quicker? Or is it even possible?
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well i work at dealership, and if i were to trash my T56 i was wondering if i could use the guts of a Z06-T56. I am gonna be using nitrous and i have heard to keep the stock gears cause the lower gears are weaker for the rearend.
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I don't know if it can be done. I have never heard of it as of yet. Can you tune for the gears using LS1 Edit? I know you can tune for final drive gears but I don't know about trans gears.
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I doubt it'll work. Seems like someone would have tried this by now? It would be nice if you had to rebuild the tranny anyway.
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by 14u2nv:
<strong>I don't know if it can be done. I have never heard of it as of yet. Can you tune for the gears using LS1 Edit? I know you can tune for final drive gears but I don't know about trans gears.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">You dont need to tune for the gears at all. The speed sensor measures the output shaft speed and only needs the rearend ratio to figure out the rear wheel speed.
<strong>I don't know if it can be done. I have never heard of it as of yet. Can you tune for the gears using LS1 Edit? I know you can tune for final drive gears but I don't know about trans gears.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">You dont need to tune for the gears at all. The speed sensor measures the output shaft speed and only needs the rearend ratio to figure out the rear wheel speed.
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Z06 gears will NOT work in the f-body. The shafts that they ride on (input and output) are completely differant. However the 5th and 6th gear out of the '03 Cobra WILL work if you RR types are interested. I don't yet know what the cost would be, but I'm going to find out.
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Racehead, I would be very interested in this conversion. I contacted D&D about swapping the early T56 5&6 on and they said it wasn't possible. I would still keep my 2.66 first correct?