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- Wed Jun 23, 2021 8:51 pm
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: Misc Thread VI: Return of the Threadi
- Replies: 55902
- Views: 3272018
Re: Misc Thread VI: Return of the Threadi
Better have her checked. She might have "the knack."
- Fri Jun 18, 2021 10:58 pm
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: Misc Thread VI: Return of the Threadi
- Replies: 55902
- Views: 3272018
Re: Misc Thread VI: Return of the Threadi
No. YOU don't have to push it almost to redline to shift. THEY have to push it almost to redline to shift. It's required by the specification they're using to do the test. I can't even fault the government for the original spec, since it's an SAE spec. I can fault SAE for a spec that was apparently ...
- Tue Jun 15, 2021 1:23 pm
- Forum: Tranny Talk
- Topic: Buying guide actually updated to 2021
- Replies: 56
- Views: 15198
Re: Buying guide actually updated to 2021
There's apparently some work in progress on an aftermarket short-throw shifter, and I 3D printed a pedal extender for the accelerator in my truck to get it set up appropriately for heel-and-toe. Frustrations, yes, but not necessarily insurmountable.
- Fri May 28, 2021 3:40 pm
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: Misc Thread VI: Return of the Threadi
- Replies: 55902
- Views: 3272018
Re: Misc Thread VI: Return of the Threadi
Most of the USDM minivans were available with manuals but the take rate was quite low and they went away mostly in the late-'80s/early-'90s.
- Tue May 18, 2021 6:08 pm
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: If ..........., You Just Might Be Drivin' an Electric
- Replies: 115
- Views: 26605
Re: If ..........., You Just Might Be Drivin' an Electric
Whose idea was THAT? The mockery writes itself.
- Sat May 08, 2021 2:18 am
- Forum: Manuals in the News
- Topic: Manual transmission enhances attention and driving performance of ADHD adolescent males
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2530
Re: Manual transmission enhances attention and driving performance of ADHD adolescent males
The summary doesn't discuss how accomplished their test subjects were and I'm not seeing a full-text link that doesn't require registration. That would be an interesting variable to consider. Even once the mechanics are, well, mechanical, it does probably provide most a little extra incentive to loo...
- Wed Apr 28, 2021 1:57 pm
- Forum: Manuals in the News
- Topic: Is The Ares Panther’s “Fake Manual” DCT Almost The Perfect Transmission?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2505
Re: Is The Ares Panther’s “Fake Manual” DCT Almost The Perfect Transmission?
I've long thought the way forward with take rates so low was probably going to have to be a DBW shifter and clutch, maybe with some force feedback. I envisioned it as a swappable shift quadrant and pedal box (since everything's ones and zeros anyway and it could just plug in and handshake with the c...
- Thu Apr 15, 2021 11:31 am
- Forum: Tranny Talk
- Topic: How Many Speeds?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3813
Re: How Many Speeds?
A number of the turnpikes around here are 80 limit. It's glorious.
- Wed Apr 07, 2021 12:44 am
- Forum: Tranny Talk
- Topic: How Many Speeds?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3813
Re: How Many Speeds?
You can get more performance with more gears, too, especially if performance isn't just quarter mile to you. There's no saying you have to use them all in every situation, either, but they can be nice to have: If approaching a target speed that is at the low end for a given gear, I commonly run out ...
- Wed Mar 24, 2021 5:48 am
- Forum: Tranny Talk
- Topic: Manuals you'll miss in 2019...
- Replies: 89
- Views: 31843
Re: Manuals you'll miss in 2019...
It sounds like they made an effort to make it feel right, with the discussion of using regen [to drag the RPM down during shifts]. They probably would not take that as far as being able to make it buck with a mishandled clutch, and it would probably be impossible to stall it.
- Wed Mar 17, 2021 1:13 am
- Forum: Manuals in the News
- Topic: If You Want To Learn To Drive Stick, Just Learn How To Ride A Motorcycle
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2910
Re: If You Want To Learn To Drive Stick, Just Learn How To Ride A Motorcycle
That sounds like a horrible idea. Maybe he's been at it long enough to have forgotten, but there's a lot of "there" there just in the balancing and the cornering and the dreaded U-turn box. Trying to grasp all that WHILE trying to learn what a clutch is...Wow. The first thing my brother di...
- Sun Feb 21, 2021 1:12 am
- Forum: Tranny Talk
- Topic: Manuals you'll miss in 2019...
- Replies: 89
- Views: 31843
Re: Manuals you'll miss in 2019...
A CVT is used to deal with a power source with a narrow powerband and is best used in low-torque applications. Both of those things are the opposite of what you get with an electric motor.
- Thu Feb 18, 2021 11:05 pm
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: Misc Thread VI: Return of the Threadi
- Replies: 55902
- Views: 3272018
Re: Misc Thread VI: Return of the Threadi
It could be argued the Corvette used a two-speed automatic in the '80s, with the Doug Nash 4+3.
- Fri Jan 22, 2021 3:41 pm
- Forum: Tranny Talk
- Topic: Manuals you'll miss in 2019...
- Replies: 89
- Views: 31843
Re: Manuals you'll miss in 2019...
The difference is that the performance/efficiency tradeoff for saving the cost, weight, and complexity of a multispeed transmission with an ICE is crippling (so much so that the Model T was a two-speed), while the performance/efficiency benefit of adding the cost, weight, and complexity of a multisp...
- Tue Dec 08, 2020 10:53 am
- Forum: Tranny Talk
- Topic: Modern Amish Transportation
- Replies: 55
- Views: 15362
Re: Modern Amish Transportation
There are dogleg four-, five-, and six-speeds too.