Boosted Falcon

Someone on here has a BA/BF Xr6 T56 or two for sale for under 2k I believe, and I could sell you guys all the crap required to bolt in a t56 for 1500-2k as well (depending one postage and what you wanted). You'd still have to get a clutch after that, but how much you spend on that is up to you.

I had a stock N/A BF XR6 clutch in my car for freaking ages, I'd estimate they are good for maybe 230rwkw or so in a boxcar - mine slipped on decent boost in third with 370rwhp but was good in first and second.

I murdered third in a T5 with about 270rwhp, at the actual time it broke it was only maybe a 60 or 70% 2-3 shift, I wasn't even going hard. The box I put in after that lasted through powercruise, (and copped it a fair bit) but by the end of that was noisy in every gear except 4th and all the synchros were pretty shagged. If you have nice short diff gears and/or slippery tyres under the bum they will last a little longer.

I've been raping the T56 since august last year with 370 and then almost 400rwhp and it's still sucking it up like a two dollar hooker. I luff it

Yeah, but if you can get a whole TKO600 kit from Mal Wood, for 6k.
There's no way in hell i'd spend 2k on a 2nd hand T56, 2k for the install parts, + clutch, flywheel, etc.

That pretty well makes it the same price as the TKO600.
Easy choice... Mal wood kit FTW.

yeah tahts 5L but
4L id go t56 cause its relatively easy...

Wonder what Mal Wood would want for a 4L tko kit, i dont reckon it would be as cheap as a 5L kit.

I worked out that I would have to go through between eight and twelve T5s before I reached the cost of one T56 or the cost of two T56s to reach the cost of one TKO600...

I like the idea of just putting a T56 in and being done with it, I get that and I think that it is great that some people have done it. But the cost to benefit just doesn't add up for me at the moment.

If I ever get to a power level where I start munching T5s every other week then the upgrade will justify itself and I can see it happening. But until then $250 T5s and a spare hour for swapping them over seems like the way it's going to be.

tko install is easy.

just use a t5 bell housing with 15mm spacer, mod the stock cross member to fit a top loader mount, cut the hole in the tunnel a bit more forward to get the stick in. then will need a 26 spline clutch plate and 31spline yoke.

all i paid for was the box $3000, yoke and clutch plate. made the rest from stuff i already had.

could be a nice little money earner for you frittz if u decided to make those bits and sell them