Base tranny vs Sport

juld0zer · 01-14-2015, 10:57 AM

My guess is that they will bolt up (but be ready to deal with something like trying to fit the rear wheels on the front - Nissan might have cast a simple slight variation that prevents swapping gearboxes). A bell housing swap would probably fix that.

And as for SRM, my guess is you'll just get S-Mode faults and an annoying error notification on your cluster. It wont blip because there's no gate sensor.

How come you want to swap boxes? I had a feel of a base gearbox when i was in Japan 2 years ago. Man that shift felt sweet. It felt really tight and it had none of that notchy/clunky feel of my sport's shift. I'd even go as far as saying the throw felt shorter. Then again, a showroom gearbox is going to feel better than my then 30,000km box.

We only get the touring sport spec here in Australia.

theDreamer · 01-14-2015, 11:03 AM

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Originally Posted by juld0zer

My guess is that they will bolt up (but be ready to deal with something like trying to fit the rear wheels on the front - Nissan might have cast a simple slight variation that prevents swapping gearboxes). A bell housing swap would probably fix that.

And as for SRM, my guess is you'll just get S-Mode faults and an annoying error notification on your cluster. It wont blip because there's no gate sensor.

How come you want to swap boxes? I had a feel of a base gearbox when i was in Japan 2 years ago. Man that shift felt sweet. It felt really tight and it had none of that notchy/clunky feel of my sport's shift. I'd even go as far as saying the throw felt shorter. Then again, a showroom gearbox is going to feel better than my then 30,000km box.

We only get the touring sport spec here in Australia.

I would say the difference is old v new.
Unless Japan has something different in their transmission, which I doubt since Nissan does not even build them, the transmissions are identical other than the sensors & control unit for SRM.

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01-14-2015, 10:57 AM	#1 (permalink)
juld0zer Enthusiast Member Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: Sydney Posts: 428 Drives: 11 Nissan 370Z MB M6 Rep Power: 139	My guess is that they will bolt up (but be ready to deal with something like trying to fit the rear wheels on the front - Nissan might have cast a simple slight variation that prevents swapping gearboxes). A bell housing swap would probably fix that. And as for SRM, my guess is you'll just get S-Mode faults and an annoying error notification on your cluster. It wont blip because there's no gate sensor. How come you want to swap boxes? I had a feel of a base gearbox when i was in Japan 2 years ago. Man that shift felt sweet. It felt really tight and it had none of that notchy/clunky feel of my sport's shift. I'd even go as far as saying the throw felt shorter. Then again, a showroom gearbox is going to feel better than my then 30,000km box. We only get the touring sport spec here in Australia.