The largest Civic Type R club forum

Established in 2002 it brings together people from all over the world to discuss their one love of Type R's.

Those Complete Power Boosting & Drivetrain Mods..
Forum rules: 
Please keep personal insults to yourselves.
Opinions and discussion are welcomed but the name calling and petty retorts are now becoming tiresome and getting in the way of what would otherwise be a great section with a lot of useful information.
Personally insulting posts and those serving little purpose except to incite argument will be removed and authors warned. FYI, we operate a multiple warning and automatic ban system.
User avatar
By boggy
#3854347
Hi
I am thinking its about time I got the gear box in good order as it has many problems
Reverse gear hard to engage at times
3Rd gear crunch
4th dose not like to let go!

Looking online I found some sincro kits but what have other people gone for I'm looking to start hillclimbing within a year or so and don't want to lose the box all together.

Any tips on parts will be grate thanks
User avatar
By Lewisgame
#3854350
Sounds like a clutch issue making you struggle in some gears. Chances are you've done damage to the synchro for 3rd and 4th and maybe more.
Changing final drive and fitting an LSD are popular modifications. If you want to get into hill climb then you may want to pick your final drive and/or gear ratios to suit.

Long time ago I had and Ep3 for 220k kilometers in[…]