Considering that the Pony's are thought of to be the dogs -- and that the
Pony transmission seems to be the one that supposedly fits on a Spitfire --
it would appear that even if the transmission fits -- it wouldn't be worth
all the time and trouble of attempting the conversion, since the
transmission would likely fail as quickly as a stock version.
In other words, no net gains over a standard Spitfire O/D transmission
whatsoever.
Best wishes,
Jeff in San Diego
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----- Original Message -----
From: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
To: Simmons, Reid W <reid.w.simmons@intel.com>
Cc: 'Joe Curry' <spitlist@gte.net>; Fred Griffiths
<griffco@mail.cadvision.com>; <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 1:16 PM
Subject: Re: Spitfire/Hyundai Transmission
>
> "Simmons, Reid W" wrote:
> >
> > Joe has a good point. There was a time only a few years ago when many
banks
> > would not issue a car loan on a Hyundai due to their exceptionally poor
> > quality (thousands of disgruntled owners would eventually just walk away
> > from these troublesome cars and let the banks reposes them).
>
> The Pony-era Hyundais were pretty lousy.
>
> The Excel-era Hyundais were decent.
>
> The modern Hyundais (Accent, Tiburon) are very nicely done and
> phenomenal value for money. They really did turn it around, much
> like Japan did over the 60s and early 70s.
>
> If the transmission comes from any semi-recent Hyundai, it'll
> probably go forever.
>
> --
> Trevor Boicey, P. Eng.
> Ottawa, Canada, tboicey@brit.ca
> ICQ #17432933 http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
> "You only say that when I've made an appalling cock-up." - Jim Hacker
>
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