Quote Originally Posted by nextelbuddy
a lot of that whining has to do with the fact that there is no sound deadning materials or carpet in the car its a race car gutted.

even if you took a stock bmw e36 and removed the compelte interior you would still receive a very annoying whine coming fro the diff and tranny.
It would not even be close to that loud though...those Cog gears, also known a "dog, crash or straight cut gears" have no brass synchonizers like most helical style gears we see in most all road cars today, rather are made completely of forged steel. The gearbox along with solid mounts uses the car body as a sounding board, thus creating that very loud Whine and clashing of gears. Take for instance the Muncie M22. it uses unsynchonized/straight cut gears and is known for its constant high pitched whine as well as incredibly loud crashing sound upon shifting gears, which gave it the name "Rock Crusher"....these came in STOCK production based cars