Adaptor plate for a Toyota E153 transmission swap

[Iantboyd]

I'm the guy who made the last set of ~20 adapter plates here in the US. A friend just pointed me over here because I don't post very often.

I've been to busy working on our Miatabusa project http://www.motoiq.com/projects/mazda...miatabusa.aspx to do anything GTX related. There seems to be enough demand that I'll run off another 15 or 20 plates in the next month. I'm not going to sell the CAD data or a drawing because I have a bunch of money in scanning and careful measurement on the design. I get a bit annoyed by people talking about reverse engineering my plate too. Have some respect for peoples IP...I paid big money and had a cousin hand carry one of the original kits from Sweden only to find out they were complete garbage and had to start from scratch just to get something usable.

Is there any preference for the pocket milled lightweight version or just the normal make it as cheap as possible request?

-Tim

Any new news regarding another batch?

[viper_707]

id possibably be interested in a plate if another batch was made

[rally-gtx]

Any new news regarding another batch?

I ordered blanks to make another set yesterday. Give it a couple of weeks and I'll squeeze it into some free machine time.

-Tim

[Iantboyd]

I ordered blanks to make another set yesterday. Give it a couple of weeks and I'll squeeze it into some free machine time.

-Tim

YES! That is the news I wanted to hear! I've been holding off on picking up my toyota transmissions fearing I would get them and then not have an adapter.

Thank you!

[bogaut]

YES! That is the news I wanted to hear! I've been holding off on picking up my toyota transmissions fearing I would get them and then not have an adapter.

Thank you!

ian, would the yota box be going in your egt or gtx

[Iantboyd]

ian, would the yota box be going in your egt or gtx

Bo, one is definitately for the gtx, Im gonna try and do the gt4 conversion. Also the reason I haven't snagged the gtr box in the classifieds. Im gonna buy a second though for when I blow up the egt tranmission again. I had planned to sell the egt when the swap was done and buy an evo or sti next year but looks like I might buy a house this year instead. So im planning on keeping the egt awhile longer.

[eXile90]

Yes , Thats really good news. Do u mind if we advertise this to get more buyers? And how much roughly will the plate cost?
Thanks

[DuRWooD]

Excellent, I'm in. Possibly for two.

[SgtRauksauff]

I actually bought two from the last buy myself, but I think i'll only be using one. I'll sell it soon. I'll take some pics and make a FS thread for it when I dig it out of where I hid it.

--sarge

[Iantboyd]

Bump!

[Iantboyd]

I ordered blanks to make another set yesterday. Give it a couple of weeks and I'll squeeze it into some free machine time.

-Tim

Hi Tim,
Just checking to see if you had any time frame for when you might make these up. Not in a huge rush but would like to plan accordingly.

Thanks!

Ian

[eXile90]

Hi Tim ,
What iantboyd said above and i was wondering when would u like deposits? Or would u prefer a one off payment?

[rally-gtx]

Most of the way done with the adapters...I pocket milled half of them for weight savings. About another week or so including going out for zinc plating. I will let everyone know when they are ready.

[DuRWooD]

Awesome, you're the man! 4WD fitment, correct?

[Iantboyd]

Most of the way done with the adapters...I pocket milled half of them for weight savings. About another week or so including going out for zinc plating. I will let everyone know when they are ready.

Those look drop dead fantastic!