[pmazza]

I came across this site while looking for something else, but figured I would throw my .02 in on the Richmond street 5.

I had similar experience with the Richmonds heavy gears being balky to shift at higher RPMs. I run the Long H pattern shifter and the trans was very sensitive to shift handle stop settings as well. After a couple of seasons of opening it up and everything seemingly looking ok, I figured someone had to have a way to fix this.

I found good info at 5speeds.com and the owner there referred me to SK Speed in NY (skspeed.com). Brian runs the trans shop at SK and knows his stuff on Richmonds.

Ended up sending up the internals to them and replacing 1-2,3-4 synchros with the 'road race' brass, replace forks with original DNE units - they are different and resist wear better. My Richmond forks were very scarred up. They also did a number of updates to mainshaft assembly to improve shift feel at RPM. Turned out I needed to replace 4th on mainshaft also due to stress cracks.

Its been back in the car for 18 months now and still feels like a new trans, definitely glad I spent the money. Hope this helps.

Phil