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Unread 05-03-2006, 22:05
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Re: Transmissions
Id like to put out there the overall cost of transmissions.

Building your own transmissions can be quite costly.

That being said, the Dewalts might be your most effective choice as far as price per reliability factor.

We have a (now) third-gen Team33 KillerBees 2speed. Students from our team Modified the original 4 speed that the KillerBees designed to accept two cims on top of the transmissions and integrate them so that the entire transmission assembly was one piece.

This year one of the students who worked on the transmissions last year (the other graduated) redesigned the transmissions once again. They now have a 1/3 gear delete and run on gears 2 and 4 from last year. The sideplates were totally redesigned and remanufactured according to the new designs. Because last year we spent quite a bit on trannies, we only had two built for cost reasons.