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Subject: Smitty Conversion
From: Awgertoo@aol.com
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 14:45:30 EST
IMHO the best thing that ever happened to my BN1 is when second gear broke 
after Open Roads 2002.  Luckily I was in Lompoc, CA and drove down to Smitty's 
in Thousand Oaks and with lots of help from Smitty, Jim Albeck and others 
installed a five-speed and drove back to Maryland.  

In the case of four-cylinder cars an extra added advantage to doing the 
conversion is that you wind up with a nice hydraulic clutch (I later upgraded 
to a 
BJ8 diaphgram model for extra smoothness), a great improvement over the balky, 
flimsy manual as original. 

Best--Michael Oritt, 100 Le Mans




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