This breadth of experience means we can rapidly develop a solution for any installation that is not only highly competitive in terms of its performance but also its cost. You will find Hewland transmissions and components in nearly every category of motorsport, from the stages of the World Rally Championship in Super 1600, Group N and World Rally Cars, to the race circuits of Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia in touring cars, sports cars, Nascars, single seat racers and LMPs. We don’t work in any other arena than the motorsport industry, which means that our entire 50 years of experience is focused on nothing but making gearboxes which help our customers win events and championships across the world. Hewland Engineering is the only company in the world which specialises solely in the design and manufacture of transmissions for competition cars. So, whatever the future holds for motor racing, Hewland will be at the core of the industry and at the heart of the cars, getting power to the wheels in the best way possible. We are committed to investing in new technologies and equipment faster now than ever before. As a company with more than 50 years’ experience in motorsport transmissions, I believe we can provide the vital solution to such critical demands. One-make series are common, even at the highest levels, but far from dumbing down our art, each requires us to offer a new bespoke fusion of technical, commercial and logistical expertise. Today’s motorsport landscape is changing. In the followingdecade, success would follow in the World Rally Championship, sports car racing and many other series across the world. In 1994 we marked our debut in touring car racing by helping Alfa Romeo and Gabriele Tarquini to victory in the British Touring Car Championship with a new sequential shift transmission. At this point in our history, the business embraced the popular production-based `tin-top` racing series. When, many years later, I took over t he business my father had created, it was with a wish to continue what he had started, taking his ground breaking concepts and developing them for the proliferation of new motorsport series. In the 1970s, most single seat racing cars the world over also used Hewland transmissions. Four-speed applications always use standard gearsets for 2nd through 4th.As a child, I would avidly watch Formula One Grands Prix on the television, immensely proud that most of the cars on the grid relied on a gearbox designed and manufactured by my father’s company. Five-speed applications using a fixed first gear also need to use a special 2nd gear (noted below as 2/5). These gearsets have the first gear cut directly into the layshaft itself for improved strength. These cars should use "fixed first" gearsets (noted below as 1/4 or 1/5) whenever possible. They are even strong enough for 2.0L applications.įixed First Gearsets: Using very low first gear ratios in a standing start application (Autocross/Solo II) can break slide-on gearsets, even with an FF1600 engine. The "M" gears are the latest, strongest gears available. These genuine Hewland gears fit Webster or Hewland Mk 8 and 9 gearboxes (1 inch diameter layshaft with 6 spline teeth). This item qualifies for FREE Shipping in the continental United States!
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