Pepper Performance NZ

03/11/2025

Upgraded s2000 timing chain tensioners back in stock ready to ship.

Modified housing, modified piston, upgraded spring, polished piston, piston and worm gear contact surfaces refinished, new o-rings and fresh bolts to finish them off.

Thanks to those that have been waiting patiently for theirs, they will be shipped shortly.

Get in touch if you need one, we ship worldwide.

22/09/2025

Turned all of the best of our spares into a ap1.5 / ap2 hybrid gearbox.

Ap1 ratios 1-6 but with ap2 carbon synchros 3rd to 6th gears and ap2 reduction gear set.

Full OEM rebuild kit, upgraded detent spring kit and Cryo + Iso treated synchro hub assemblies, oh and let's not forget the spoon gearbox casings.

Yes this was once a spoon blueprinted gearbox, one of two we have laid hands on over the years.

Quite a cool and rare gearbox.

Get in touch for your s2k needs.

13/09/2025

I decided to test out some theories on my spare ap2 gearbox that had 3000 KMs on it, was a strange feeling to pull apart such a low KMs gearbox but very educational.

My f20c swapped ae85 had a ap2 transmission in it but the gearing wasn't great with the 4.9 final drive in the r200 diff in the Silvia rear subframe that is swapped onto this little beast.

So I decided to take my spare low KMs ap2 transmission and build a hybrid gearbox using ap1 3-4th gears for the double cone synchros and the ap1 1.16 reduction gear over the ap2 1.208.

While it was apart I got all the internals micro polished and Cryo treated Super Finishing Ltd , full rebuild kit, installed our upgraded detent kit and added a set of WPC and DLC coated release bearing guide and clutch fork kit.

Gearbox turned out great and the gearing is also alot better now, still need to do a bit more testing and setting up on the car but it's definitely an awesome combination, high reving, light weight and independent suspension all round.

06/06/2025

Finally found some time to assemble the PPG gearset into our spare AP2 gearbox housing.

Managed to get our hands on a damaged PPG dog gear set thanks to Lone Wolf Racing , after some replacement parts from Pfitzner Performance Gearbox - PPG , some Laser welding by Pulse Laser Welding New Zealand, superfinishing and stealth coating by Super Finishing Ltd this set is now good as new and ready to be driven in anger again.

Built this bad boy with a full OEM rebuild kit, plus our full detent kit and tidied up the AP2 housings in the media blasting cabinet.

For those with keen eyes you might spot the welded pins on the selector shafts, for the rest of you there is a zoomed in image.
The OEM roll pins were removed and solid ground finish pins were welded in, this was part of the reason for the damage to the gearset before we got our hands on it, can't have that happing again.

Once the f22c is assembled this will make its way into the shop car.

19/04/2025

Been out of action for a few months due to an injury, but getting back into it.

Kicked things off with a diff build for a customer in the south island building a s2000 race car.
He already has one of our gearboxes and wanted to give the differential some attention.

Customer provided a 4.777 ring and pinion as well as a ATB L*D.

We added a set of billet bearing caps with .
Complete factory Honda rebuild kit: bearings seals, drive washer and locking nut.
Solid pinion spacer machined to suit.
Finished it off with a coat of paint on the casing and drive fl**ge.

Customer did not supply the rear cover due to it being modified for more oil capacity.

This should keep the car turning out laps without issues.

Get in touch for your s2000 needs.

29/08/2024

Two engines we built up for two customers recently.

First was a f24 with lower 10:1 compression, using a modified k24 crank, f24 specific rods, low compression wösner pistons bearings.
Block was drysleeved using and a custom upper cylinder wall brace.
Added a dry sump kit, finished off with a ported head held together held on by head studs, with valve springs kit, hyper single clutch and a freshly powder coated valve cover.
This bad boy will be turning laps in BMW racecar soon.

The second engine was a hi compression 11.8:1 f20c.
The block got the same darton sleeve and cylinder brace treatment.
Wösner pistons, , ARP head stud kit, valve springs and a Toda clutch.
Customer supplies a modified OEM oil pan as this one is going into a ford es**rt race car.

Two quite different engines, going into two completely different cars.

06/04/2024

Quite a tidy one with some nice jdm parts, if anyone is looking to buy.

30/01/2024

Another gearbox build for an awesome wee race car.

F20c swapped BMW e46 316i facelift hatch.
We certainly have some creative f series enthusiast in New Zealand.

Customer requested a spare gearbox for his car just in case.
We started with one of our spare low Kms ap1 gearboxes. Stripped it down, inspected and rebuild with one of your honda rebuild kits which we keep in stock.
We added a set of new cryo treated and iso finished synchro sets for smooth operation.
Added a set of our detent springs including the updated internal spring for better shifting, less chance of miss shifts and to help those synchros last even longer.
Topped off with Motul gear 300 for lap after lap of trouble free racing.

Hope this keeps your amazing build going for many races to come

Get in touch for your honda f series needs.

14/09/2023

One of two Fraser Cars chassis coming together with one of our engines.
Amazing job lads it looks amazing!

Fraser 348; exciting day at the Fraser factory! Fraser 348 fired up for the very first time

18/08/2023

S2000 tct's back in stock!

Haven't done a batch of these in a while, had a few requests lately so got more knocked out.

Depending on how soon these go out will do another asap.

These are the same version 3 units that we have been doing for the past 2 plus years, which includes:

Modified tct body (version 1)
Stronger internal spring (version 2)
Modified piston (version 3)

Only difference being an improved spring design over our older spring.
There was nothing wrong with the old spring, we were out of stock and had to get more made, so we tweeked the design in the process.

Some of these are already spoken for but if anyone needs one get in touch.

29/06/2023

Another flood damaged rebuild.
Once again more water than oil came out when draining the old fluid.

Car will be getting k24 swapped and will be turned into a race car.
With that in mind we swapped to a Cryo and iso finished 4.44 final drive.
Added a Cusco 1.5way plate L*D.
Solid pinion spacer with stronger bearing cap bolts, with a complete OEM rebuild kit.

Colin Cosmas Abah GarageJdmltd time to get the car going ;-)

20/06/2023

From flood damaged to kswap race car ready. Colin Cosmas Abah GarageJdmltd

Gearbox had a lot more water in it than oil it came out of a written off flood damaged car that will soon be turned into a race car.

Stripped it all down, inspected and replaced a few gears, synchros and components showings signs of corrosion.
Tidied up the casings.
Iso finished and Cryo treated most of the internal components.
Completed install with our gearbox spring kit and a OEM rebuild kit.

Ready to rip some VTEC.

Now to do the diff . . . . TBC.