Not so DIY: Made a T-50 Bellhousing to W58 transmission adap

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banpei Wrote:[quote="assassin10000"]
I should have said the W58 4AGE bellhousings there... Those are also quite difficult to get by: toyocoolrolla has them once a year and some Australian company fabricates them as well but are a bit expensive to ship.

The AUS company is Dellow. I've run across several posts in my research that show the dellow lacks the reinforcment/ribs that a better design bellhousing does and tends to crack due to poor design & materials (not first hand knowledge!).

The same has been said about some of Rhett/toycoolrolla's.

There was enough to put me off on choosing either one of those.

toyotaloyal Wrote:Not sure if you knew of and/struck out with this crowd but heres a link to a company making 4age- W series bellhousings here in NZ.

http://a1turbos.co.nz/

major benefits from this is you use all std toyota parts (clutchfork release bearing , slave cylinder etc) and it also allows you to run the largest 4agze flywheel/clutch combo available.

exchange rate works in favour of pretty much anyone outside New Zealand too which helps

Yep, that was my #1 choice... originally.

The adapter I made uses standard toyota parts, with the exception of the adapter/spacer & weld on sleeve .

Granted, the adapter & stock bellhousing doesn't allow the use of the larger late model GZE flywheel like the nitepartz/a1turboz. But if you do further research the nitepartz/a1turboz piece requires a little grinding of the housing to fit that flywheel. Also, I don't need a larger flywheel considering I'm running a stock motor, and have no plans to turbo/gze/ect that would really require a larger clutch setup. And they're are plenty of clutch upgrades that would hold with the smaller 200/212mm flywheels & more power available as well...

In any case, when I had $ in hand there were none available & I didn't get an response to my emails inquiring on ETA.

Also, with the bellhousings, your shifter will most likely NOT be in the right position. And if I had used it with the trans I had, it would have required cutting the front of my shifter hole. Or sourcing the much more rare 19" position shift housing & internal lever (even more $$$).

Andrew