Getrag info

Atilla the Fun · Post by **Atilla the Fun** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 12:13 pm

this may not be the place for this, and this might not be helpful, or it might be obvious, but: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getrag

The Dark Side of Will · Fri Aug 15, 2008 12:32 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getrag_282_transmission

About half of the 282 info is incorrect in some way, and I think that's a picture I took that was probably lifted from Old Europe. I'll have to check my home computer to be sure.

Atilla the Fun · Post by **Atilla the Fun** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 1:15 pm

well, that's more help than their write-up. Thank you.

The Dark Side of Will · Fri Aug 15, 2008 5:40 pm

I think I remember reading somewhere that someone called Getrag and asked for info about the 282 and Getrag denied ever having a 282.

Nashco · Post by **Nashco** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 5:58 pm

The Dark Side of Will wrote:I think I remember reading somewhere that someone called Getrag and asked for info about the 282 and Getrag denied ever having a 282.

They called the wrong guy. I have a buddy that used to work at Getrag's US engineering headquarters, the 282 isn't taboo or anything there, the older guys were quite familiar with the project. They even gave us a super cool vintage late 80s/early 90s "Getrag 5 Speed" sticker to put on our LeMons car. I'll see if I can dig up pictures, it's a bad ass sticker in a retro sort of way.

Bryce

Series8217 · Post by **Series8217** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 6:08 pm

The Dark Side of Will wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getrag_282_transmission

About half of the 282 info is incorrect in some way, and I think that's a picture I took that was probably lifted from Old Europe. I'll have to check my home computer to be sure.

I took that picture and put it on the article. I never posted it on Old Europe and I hope you didn't post it as your own

. I posted it here though. It's in the 282 thread.
I also wrote most of the (original) article. Everything in the first paragraph and the list under Gear Ratios is straight from the Muncie service manual I showed you awhile back.
Some douchebag came along and added a bunch of crap with "rumored" gear ratios and the oldsmobile silhouette and all kinds of other crap. ARgghh. I've fixed it before but people keep added that stuff.

The Dark Side of Will · Fri Aug 15, 2008 6:23 pm

I've taken a similar picture and couldn't remember if I've posted it or not.

I may be able to dig up enough correct RPO vs. ratio info to build a table or two that have enough correct info to make the jackass STFU.

Series8217 · Post by **Series8217** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 6:33 pm

The Dark Side of Will wrote:I've taken a similar picture and couldn't remember if I've posted it or not.

I may be able to dig up enough correct RPO vs. ratio info to build a table or two that have enough correct info to make the jackass STFU.

Cool. What's on the table right now is just what I copied out of the Muncie service manual for the 282.

Atilla the Fun · Post by **Atilla the Fun** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 10:59 am

I feel it's good that we have this thread tom let everyone know it has errors, and to ask Will, or go to Rodney Dickman. On a related note, I'm sending Tremec an e-mail this afternoon proposing they spend a few minutes considering our plight, and can they help us? I think half you guys would like a 2.97/2.07/1.43/1.00/0.70 gearset, and I'd like a TKO500 in Fiero packaging, with a 3.00:1 posi, but if they could just give us a stronger Getrag case to keep that pocket bearing from blasting into the clutch, and maybe a 3.00:1 final gearset, but I'd really like an Auburn posi, too!