Ferrari 250LM at Laguna Seca

https://www.youtube.com/embed/0fggbtRKzI4?rel=0

Looks good even at full screen.

Are the gears grinding on every shift??

It doesn't seem like he's revmatching at all. Maybe there's something going on that I'm not privy to.

Not sure what's up with the crunchy shifts. It sounds like a square-cut trans, though.

I don't doubt they are straight cut gears, what with all that wonderful whining. But I cringe at every shift.

The real pain is knowing that everyone who knows how to rebuild that trans who has done one before has long passed.

captdownshift wrote: The real pain is knowing that everyone who knows how to rebuild that trans who has done one before has long passed.

Everything from that Era could be fixed by a tech today. Bet you could take it apart and put it back together provided parts are available. They had really cool ideas to try but did not have the machining or materials science to match them so they should be pretty basic.

I tried to do a search on 'Ferrari 250 LM transmission' to see if I could find out more about if it was a crash box, etc. but didn't find much. However, the O'reilys Auto Parts store apparently carries replacement speedometer cables for it.

captdownshift wrote: The real pain is knowing that everyone who knows how to rebuild that trans who has done one before has long passed.

Ferrari still has people.

According to my Ferrari book from 03, it's a non-syncromesh transaxle that was notoriously hard to shift. Doesn't say who built it (almost every other transaxle of the day was the ZF 5 DS-25, including the GT-40). It does mention however that of the 32 250 LM's built, 38 currently exist. Apparently quite a few were crashed and rebuilt and then later somebody fixed the damaged tubs and tried to claim the same SN. (See Porsche 917/956/962 for the same issue).