Tranny swapability question

[ScottyCBoy at aol.com]

You'll have to do something about the rear diff. The 4kq has 4.11 gears and the 5000tq has 3.888888888 gears. You can do it but you won't be able to lock the center diff without destroying something.

Scott

In a message dated Thu, 14 Feb 2002  1:57:58 PM Eastern Standard Time, Mihnea Cotet <mik at info.fundp.ac.be> writes:

> Hello all!
>
> I'd like to know if it's possible to swap an 85-86 5ktq tranny in place of
> a 4kq "US" code tranny ... as in July I'll be swaping a turbo engine with
> EFI and lots of goodies in my car and I know for a fact that my tranny is a
> particularly short ratio type, I'd like to put a 5ktq locker tranny in my
> car as it has taller gears and allows for higher top speed as well as lower
> RPMs at legal highway speeds (120-130 km/h), which could improve my fuel
> mileage...Who has a BTDT on this one? The familiy album shows a different
> type of rear diff housing so I'd like to know if this is feasible at all or
> not.;
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Mihnea