HX Sandman Van Confirmation Please

[playwme]

They're apparently pretty strong. Other benefit of the conversion is that a 5 speed from an EB-EL falcon will slide straight in its place from what I hear. Same internals as the Commodore v8 5 speed but a quarter of the price.

I'm yet to do my conversion. Currently have a single rail 4 speed in the van but have the 5 speed there ready to go.

[Dick61]

They're apparently pretty strong. Other benefit of the conversion is that a 5 speed from an EB-EL falcon will slide straight in its place from what I hear. Same internals as the Commodore v8 5 speed but a quarter of the price.

I'm yet to do my conversion. Currently have a single rail 4 speed in the van but have the 5 speed there ready to go.

I'm doing the same conversion in my HQ, the Falcon T5 has a shorter input shaft than the Commodore V6 T5, the only one with a shorter input shaft is the Group 1 VN SS T5 box but they in the same league as Rocking Horse Poo. I have also sourced a Mustang T5 tail housing which moves the shifter forward by 50mm. All this is important so you don't have to carve into the reinforcing rib in the tunnel behind the original Aussie gear lever hole. Oh BTW the run of the mill Commodore V8 T5 has the longest input shaft of all. If you use a Commodore V8 box with its original shifter location the T5 shifter will come out between the seats, you will be unable to use the Holden console and you will have to hack into the strengthening rib in the floor, which will not be passed by an engineer. The other T5 box that moves the shifter forward is the Chev s10 box which will bring the shifter through the floor at or just forward of the front console mount, to get a tail housing for one of these will cost $500.00 USD plus shipping.