| Not any more (possibly more OR possibly less depending). I'm sure you can figure it out, but I'll attempt to explain anyway. On a road course I am in 3rd most of the time, shifting to 4th often right before turns (running out of gear), and shifting to 2nd while braking in to slower turns. I am usually only using the "top" of second and the bottom of 4th (except on some front/back straights when I get to use most of 4th -depends on track, obviously-). With this transmission I doubt I would need to use gear 2 at all anymore (except perhaps on REALLY slow turns). So, I would end up using most - all of gear 3 when coming out of the slower turns, all of gear 4 and shifting into gear 5 very rarely. The only time I would be shifting "extra" would be where I had an extremely slow corner(2) FOLLOWED BY an extremely fast straight(5). Otherwise, I am likely to shift LESS, (using only gears 3 and 4 for most of the track) or the SAME AMOUNT with much more useable power (on the occasions where I would use either 2-rare / 5-on really fast straights). The trade for that is more completely using the now 2 gears I would usually use on the road course (3 and 4 in this case) rather than all of 3, and part of 2 and part of 4. So, no its not necessarily "alot of shifting" - not at all. I got that the first time, I was making a facetious comment. No, but does it hurt to ask how it would relate to others popular options? It doesn't "hurt," no. There's no data to compare though. You're asking for a statical comparison on a value that doesn't exist in any published material. Did I ask for an empirical efficiency datapoint constant? How else would you compare relative efficiencies? I would bet the guys who engineer and manufacture this thing have an idea about how efficient it is compared to other popular transmissions like the T56. I would bet they don't care, but I'll leave it to the engineer to respond to this point. By used j-spec transmissions, I simply meant used. Our stock transmissions have been known to break on the high end of the horsepower range that our cars are capable of making. Just because you have no plans to be on that end of the range, doesn't mean we all share that desire. No, they don't. The only people shedding the 5-speed transmissions are those beating the shit out of them, abusing them. Plenty of guys have high horsepower drag cars (ZHOUND), etc. and apart from clutch damage issues have never had to replace them - something that could happen to the 6-speed just as easily. Again, how do you plan on blowing up multiple 5-speed transmissions? Why is it you and Spee like to hate first and think later? You can figure all this out yourself kenny. I'm just trying to figure out what the hell you're talking about.
Recursively Yours,
Kenny...
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SteamyZ. Never had did me wrong. - SL103 07/06/04 11:58:15
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