BLACKSI

go with the lower geared tranny my j1 tranny owned my ls tranny

Semnos

not correct the 88 has 21 splines...88 and older tranny's have 21 splines the newer tranny's '89 up habe 20 splines.
get the tranny with 20 splines..all performance clutches ar made with 20 splines disks ACT makes clutches for the 21 splines, but they are a smaller diameter and hold less torque...cause the 21 splines tranny's came with smaller flywheels.

HMT-Admin

DX trannys are garbage, I personally like lower geared trannys, they accerate faster, get you better ET's 1/4 mile, and simply are funnier to drive. I've used just about every l3 tranny possible zc/hf/dx/si/std and my personal fav is the SI. The myth of longer gears being better since you will be boosting longer is garbage. Its more like, you fall out of your power band and put way more of a load on your engine.

98ctr

No wonder I see all the people laugh when they drive in their si's. lol
I think you meant "funner" Jeff.

HMT-Admin

Hey did you see when that was posted! 4am... lol

ok, I was a bit tired when I made that post

quadnie

I thought the 88 Si trannies were stronger then the '89+ si ones. I think the clutch sizes were the same, I ran into a pain in the *** replacing a clutch on an '89 crx si and force fit the wrong spline count clutch disc on there... I think I was stupiderer back then.

91civicZ6

AMEN! Im so sick and tired of dumbasses telling me "you need to downgrade to the DX tranny because LONG GEARS ARE BETTER FOR TURBO!!@@!!@@" what they really mean to say is "im a ------- geek and spend all my time reading honda-tech and gaining theory on cars instead of actually building or driving a turbo car of my own!"

quadnie

So is anyone going to back up or disprove my wacked theories on Si trannies?

HMT-Admin

l3 trannys are all -----, they have aluminum shift forks that break, and bearings that growl like a ------- mean bear at 100k miles.

I had a diff launch out of a case when I had a HMT A6.