Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 00:01:07 -0700
From: Alan Dahl <adahl@eskimo.com>
Subject: RE: Neon impaired...
At 08:37 AM 6/14/99 -0400, you wrote:
>The R/T and the ACR share the same gearing.
>ACR/RT have a 3.94 final drive and .81 fifth gear,
>SOHC (except ACR's) have a 3.55 final drive and a .72 5th gear.
>And to confuse things a little more there is an additional "performance"
>trans that is on all DOHC cars except ACR/RT's with a 3.94 final drive and a
>.72 5th gear.
>All other gears are the same.
Alan Dahl responded:
<<Actually to confuse things a little more on top of that the first 200
1995 SOHC ACR sedans like mine had hand-built transmissions with
slightly different ratios than later production ACR sedans and the DOHC
Sport.>>
When was the R/T intruduced? I thought originally there were only 2 Neon
models - the standard one and the ACR. True? If so this gearing business
appears to be a case of revisionist history...
And (for CHD) apparently, the Mercedes video was encoded with a
proprietary Codec that only comes with ATI graphics cars....
Paul Foster
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