After Nutting’s transmission spit the bit in his Monte Carlo last week he has been mulling which direction to go with a gearbox. Should he just have the 200 rebuilt and be done with it? Should he perform the T56 swap he has always wanted to do? Should be pull the nicer 200 out of his “backup” Monte Carlo, or maybe he should just install the same setup you find on a 10-speed bike. These are the things he has been thinking about while staring at the ceiling late into the night. Allow me to introduce another option to the program and that is the mighty and awesome G-Force clutchless manual transmission. If this video doesn’t sell him on the concept, he is beyond help as far as I am concerned because once you see this driver dump the clutch to get off the line and then simply rip the lever from gear to gear at full throttle there’s no other direction for the car to take.
This video shows both in and out of car footage of this 1979 Monte Carlo racing at the famed Cordova Dragway Park in Illinois. The engine is a naturally aspirated 408ci small block Chevy and the transmission (as mentioned) is a G-Force five speed. While the car looks nice from the inside, you’ll really fall in love (if you enjoy things that are good) when you see it launch from the outside because it is pristine and has a mean pro street style stance that we have loved since we were old enough to know what pro street was.
You’ll notice that this driver was making eighth mile hits on this night of testing. The car was running deep into the six second zone in the eighth and that means this is a very high 9-second car on a full pull (if you believe the conversion charts). It looks awesome, it sounds awesome, it is packing a big inch small block, and it has a G-Force transmission. Heck, this guy is so detail oriented that he kept the factory column shifter in the car just to mess with people. We love it and we think Nutting needs to take note and make this happen for this own car, which only makes about 85% less horsepower than the one featured. Virtually a twin, really.
