NV4500 Swap
12-14-2009, 11:41 AM
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What is submitted here is purely anecdotal.
1) Has anybody ever heard of lots of folks swapping a Getrag 360 into any another vehicle?
Advance Adapters doesn't have an adapter bellhousing to adapt the Getrag 360 to any other vehicle, Lakewood either.
2) Has anybody ever yanked out their NV4500 and replaced it with a Getrag 360?
3) Thousand upon thousands have yanked out Getrags and replaced them with NV4500's, are all these people wrong?
4) Thousands upon thousands more have sought out the NV4500 for rockcrawlers and such, no one even considers a Getrag, why?.
Again the Getrag 360 is a fine reliable transmission, ***IF*** 5th gear (overdrive) is not exposed to higher than stock horsepower (and that's the old 1st gen HP of 160, torque of 400), higher than stock torque or higher than recommended loading. The skinny 3/4" countershaft and inadequate sized countershaft bearings are incapable of handling anything more than the stock vehicle GVW rating.
1) Has anybody ever heard of lots of folks swapping a Getrag 360 into any another vehicle?
Advance Adapters doesn't have an adapter bellhousing to adapt the Getrag 360 to any other vehicle, Lakewood either.
2) Has anybody ever yanked out their NV4500 and replaced it with a Getrag 360?
3) Thousand upon thousands have yanked out Getrags and replaced them with NV4500's, are all these people wrong?
4) Thousands upon thousands more have sought out the NV4500 for rockcrawlers and such, no one even considers a Getrag, why?.
Again the Getrag 360 is a fine reliable transmission, ***IF*** 5th gear (overdrive) is not exposed to higher than stock horsepower (and that's the old 1st gen HP of 160, torque of 400), higher than stock torque or higher than recommended loading. The skinny 3/4" countershaft and inadequate sized countershaft bearings are incapable of handling anything more than the stock vehicle GVW rating.
Nobody swaps them becaused they are flawed from factory, and in OEM form they cant handle high HP, not after the modifications, if you have money to burn then inded just buy a NV but if you dont just build the RAG right, thats all im saying, you can save a lot of money with a little knowledge and still be able to do anything that NV can do
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