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Fwd: Re: 5 Speed Trans Conversion

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Subject: Fwd: Re: 5 Speed Trans Conversion
From: Timothy Holbrook <tjh173@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 12:45:48 -0700 (PDT)
A-type o/d ratio is .82. 4th gear is 1:1, and 4th o/d ratio will be
.82:1.  

Tim Holbrook
1971 TR6


--- Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> wrote:
> From: Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>
> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 13:54:53 -0500
> To: "John Truttman" <jtruttman@worldnet.att.net>
> CC: "6packlist" <6pack@autox.team.net>
> Subject: Re: 5 Speed Trans Conversion
> Reply-to: Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>
> 
>     John> I finally have the details from Herman Vandenakker
> regarding the
>     John> conversion.  This is from his "brochure";
> 
>     ...
> 
>     John> Gear ratio of fifth gear is 0.783.
> 
> Two silly questions:
> 
> 1. How does that gear ratio compare to the fourth gear in overdrive
> and
>    non-overdrive TRs (I'm mostly interested in my TR-250, but will
> accept
>    ballpark numbers for any).
> 
> 2. What transmission(s) will this work with?  Looking back at #1,
> wouldn't
>    the various choices of transmission affect the final ratio?
> 
> Thx,
> 
> -- 
> Skip Montanaro (skip@pobox.com)
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