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[mafia_boy]

here you go... and why does it sound like it has a slushbox?

Because the landcruiser's auto gearbox is actually quicker to shift gears than the long throw manual. It was done here by Safari turbos for wheels magazine in a pair of 100 series (one auto, one manual)....it was over 0.5sec better on the 1/4 to be in the auto. Strange but true.

 

[Revheadnz]

Because the landcruiser's auto gearbox is actually quicker to shift gears than the long throw manual. It was done here by Safari turbos for wheels magazine in a pair of 100 series (one auto, one manual)....it was over 0.5sec better on the 1/4 to be in the auto. Strange but true.

Not to mention the fact that there's no manual that would bolt up and handle the horsepower. Short of perhaps a dirty Hollinger or something similar.

 

[Keef]

Automatics are great for drag racing because they have very consistent launches and the risk of driver error blowing the thing to bit is minimal.

 

[Rotary Junkie]

Automatics are great for drag racing because they have very consistent launches and the risk of driver error blowing the thing to bit is minimal.

And they're quicker. By a bit.

 

[Jim Prower]

Well, yes and no...the Trannies on your Pro-Stocks are real Manuals...but they can be shifted WFO. and have five levers. *shrug*

 

[Jay]

The fastest transmission is no transmission at all! (see top fuelers, tyre CVT)

 

[Azuremen]

Explain. CVT - Continually Variable Transmission. That would suggest there is a transmission.

 

[HACKr]

A real 944.

http://www.pistonheads.com/porsche/default.asp?storyId=7895

 

[Jay]

Explain. CVT - Continually Variable Transmission. That would suggest there is a transmission.

Obviously.....I didn't mean it was a CVT but the end result is similar.

 

[Keef]

Obviously.....I didn't mean it was a CVT but the end result is similar.

Actually there really is no transmission at all. It's direct drive. The many clutch plates simply engage at different times, causing varying degrees of slip, until they lock up all the way at some point near half-track.

 

[Jay]

Actually there really is no transmission at all. It's direct drive. The many clutch plates simply engage at different times, causing varying degrees of slip, until they lock up all the way at some point near half-track.

What do you think I was getting at in my original post?

"The fastest transmission is no transmission at all!"

You guys take my CVT blurb too literal. The tyres get taller as they gain speed which changes the drive ratio (kinda CVT like), I only added the tyre bit in before someone jumps on me about the tyres altering the drive ratio, but it I got the opposite effect.

 

[Zmann42087]

Waddya mean ruined? You mean you don't want to pull chicks in this?

Poor little GVR4. It deserves so much better..

 

[Leonidae]

Actually it is, because you didn't explain yourself at all.

From what we can see, it makes less power. That doesn't make much sense.

Of course, we could just put this in with your usual talking big when you don't really have a reason.

Porsche had to create completely new engine for the 944 since they didn't want it to have an engine related to Audi's 4-cylinders anymore. And just like with any new engine, there were some issues. And doesn't 3l 4-cylinder sound like an engine you'd find from a pickup truck? in addition, Audi's i5 is far more common, parts are cheaper, it's probably lighter, and it sounds a lot better than any i4 could ever hope.

 

[Time_Attack]

 

[Leonidae]

He asked for it.

 

[homeforsummer]

And doesn't 3l 4-cylinder sound like an engine you'd find from a pickup truck? in addition, Audi's i5 is far more common, parts are cheaper, it's probably lighter, and it sounds a lot better than any i4 could ever hope.

Audi's I5 more common? Really? In the UK at least 924Ss and 944s virtually grow on trees. There are far fewer older 5-cyl Audis about.

And consensus on the internet is that the Audi's engine weighs about 70 lbs more. The Porsche's engine was 340 lbs dry.

 

[TheCracker]

in addition, Audi's i5 is far more common

They made 11,452 Audi Quattros.

Porsche made 163,192 944's + a futher 12,776 968's.

I know the Quattro's engine was used in other Audis - but how many of those performance variants actually made?

 

[Time_Attack]

 

[Leonidae]

let's see.. UR-Quattro, coupe quattro, S2.. the there were the lower end models like 80, 100 etc, with and without quattro, and in both NA and turbo forms..

 

[Jay]

Those Crowns are awesome, I wish they sold them here.

 

[homeforsummer]

let's see.. UR-Quattro, coupe quattro, S2.. the there were the lower end models like 80, 100 etc, with and without quattro, and in both NA and turbo forms..

...And not nearly as many of them came with the I5 as you seem to think. The majority used boggo-standard I4s, diesels, and a number of others used V6s.

Porsche made 163,192 944's + a futher 12,776 968's.

And countless 924S models which had essentially that engine as well 👍

 

[Leonidae]

oh yeah, regarding that 20V Audi engine.. does it have any balancer shafts? Porsche's i4 has two of them.

 

[Jim Prower]

Probably. It'd need one more piston to be Perfectly Balanced. Besides, you talk about that sort of thing as if it's bad to have balance shafts.

 

[Rotary Junkie]

You don't give up, do you Leo?

 

[Leonidae]

Just idle curiousity, that's all.

 

[Jay]

Any large 4 cylinder (2+ litres) will have balance shafts, nothing unusual about it. 5 cylinders too.

 

[Keef]

 

[Stotty]

Beautiful engine bay, but why did they fit the steering wheel off a bus?

 

[Jay]

The wheel folds up like that because Civics with full cages, fixed racing seats are hard to get into without it.......oh wait.

I guess the owner likes the 1950's racing car touch (300SL road car too) of a folding wheel and yes that engine bay is very clean.

 

[Stotty]

I wasn't really being serious... just taking the piss.