Focus SVT Tranny in My MSP

[Grendel782002]

Just throwing this out there as an idea

Hopefully someone with a lot more experience will be able to answer this: has anyone here considered swapping out their factory 5-speed with the SVT Focus 6-speed? I havent seen actual pictures or torn my tranny out to look at bolt patterns and whatnot, but it seems like a feasible venture!

After a quick and dirty search I found these links, but the pictures may not be accurate.

Focus SVT: http://usedautoparts.everdrive.com/partdetails.aspx?sku=3224942

Mazdaspeed Protg: http://usedautoparts.everdrive.com/PartDetails.aspx?sku=3224949&searchid=5126557

Any thoughts?

 

[kz9]

No go.

Its ALOT of work to do it.

 

[EMPIRE]

Not a bad idea.

 

[livelyjay]

It's not a bad idea if you like throwing $2000 away for an extra gear. I cruise the Contour forums a lot because my wife drive one. They all say the same thing, the SVT Focus tranny isn't very strong and has blown on stock powered cars before. They also say 200whp is the limit for them.

Side note it's great to know that company you linked includes the torque converter with their manual transmissions (wtf?)

 

[Grendel782002]

HA! I didn't even notice that! I love it when companies really know their products! (boom04)

I've spent the past couple of days trying to read this thread from the PR5 forum http://www.protege5.com/forum/showthread.php?t=123625241. Based on what people have said there I think that KZ9 is right, waaaay too much trouble for too little payoff.