I helped the owner of this Lusso buy this car a couple years ago and he sent it back to me for some mechanical upgrades.

He plans of taking this car on rallies and one thing that is lacking on a Lusso is an overdrive gear for high speed driving. If there was ever one thing wrong with a Lusso it would be this lack of overdrive for an otherwise beautiful car!

One solution was to use a kit supplied by a supplier in the UK that adds a mechanical gear set to the rear section of the Ferrari transmission. Some people have added a Laycock overdrive to the transmission, the same found on GTEs, but this modification adds a 5th gear without an extra switch or hydraulics and overdrive is achieved with a seamless shift off the lever in a conventional H-pattern. This kit is supposed to be “plug and play,” but we’ll see. I’ll be building this transmission as soon as I pull this gear box out!

Here’s a video of the process of removal.

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