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Originally Posted by 114ManualLabor
But seriously, does anyone who went have pictures for those of us across the country who would like to see?
I'm very curious as to how these gearboxes have been improved.
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The sideplates are now aluminum instead of steel. They no longer have the mounting flanges. Teams will have to either fabricate their own, or bolt them through the face of the transmission to a frame member.
They are also fully enclosed.
They will come standard with the option to either use servos or pneumatics to shift, as well as an encoder.
An extra stage of gearing is added to allow direct drive. As previously mentioned, I'm not sure that the output shaft is long enough to mount a wheel and sprockets on it.
Andy said that if you don't wish to direct drive, you can remove the third stage of gearing, and purchase an extended intermediate shaft from them (that would become the output shaft) and use them exactly like the Gen 2 shifter.
I wouldn't say that functionally they look drastically different. They just have some minor tweaks that make them more versatile, IMO.