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Polopharm:
Has anyone found a sequential gearbox that works for our apllication in the Europa? If so which one?

BDA:
Did a quick search and was surprised to have found some. They ain't cheap and they're for A LOT more HP (and torque) than you'd find in any Europa. Some (all?) include oil pumps which is a complexity we wouldn't need. Some (all?) have straight cut gears and dog engagement making them a difficult choice for the street  but here's what I found:

https://www.fortinracing.com/product/frs5-sequential/
https://ranchotransaxles.com/albins-transaxles/
https://www.dana.com/products/light-vehicle/high-performance-vehicle/

If  you're really interested, each of those sites has other trannies listed on other pages so you should look around.

Enjoy!

Polopharm:
As i am crazy still toying with idea of buying the 72 tc project
car, (its fully disassembled in boxes) to build as a race car. Depending on class you could reasonably argue for use of either a Toyota or ford engine and sequential tranny are allo
wed. Engine rule is swaps are allowed as long as it is the same brand that the manufacturer has used...so thus the engine choices. It would take a little time to get the first log book but i think doable. After racing with a sequential  i would dread going back to h pattern.
Theres a company in portugal that has hundreds of used sequential for sale all in the 3k range.
Interesting for the street the have a booster sequential with syncros not designed to withstand clutchless downshfting unless you add a autoblip, which requires a standalone ecu.

Weird side note- i recently saw a maual tranny set up for people with use of only 1 leg, much like an old vw sportomatic, it has a sensor on the shifterknob, when you press lightly on knob a motor operates the clutch.
At red lights you can put in nuetral or just depress shifter knob. It somehow sensed the timing of the clutch release and was quite smooth. Kit was made in india, was under a grand. The driver with the disability had it all done for free via a charity.

BDA:
The rules might be a problem. Would they consider the Twin Cam to be a Lotus engine since Lotus designed the head or a Ford since that's where the block came from?

Assuming you can get the Ford engine designation, you have a lot of leeway. Sequential trannies seem to be an issue of money and fabrication (i.e. money + time). Hewland trannies also look WAY over engineered for any engine you'd likely put in a Europa but here they are (I'm not sure if any are sequential but I assume at least some are.):

https://www.hewland.com/wpccategories/mid-engine-rear-wheel-drive/

SwiftDB4:
What racing organization are you thinking about? Don't think SCCA or vintage organizations will allow engine swaps to Toyota or Ford Zetec for a production class Europa. Not even sure about a sequential box from a different manufacturer.

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