Ever driven an XK8? You'll be amazed at that gearbox. You cannot tell
when the thing changes. Floor it and at say 90 you realize you havn't
sensed the gearbox change. Its incredible and apparently the unit is
sealed for life.
With this kind of technology I predict manuals will disappear.
Ian Southwell, Coventry.
GT6 Mk3 x2
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James [SMTP:james.carpenter@ukaea.org.uk]
> Sent: 17 March 1998 12:02
> To: RICHARD.JACKSON@NENE.AC.UK
> Cc: triumph owners digest
> Subject: Re: automatic transmissions
>
>
> All this semi-auto stuff, that's not what I wan't, I wan't a car that
> when you are in first or second in your standad manual setup, and
> your revs drop below 900 rpm, the clutch goes in. When the car is
> in nutral the cluck goes out. When you go above 900 rpm the cluch
> engadges over 1/2 a second. This way you don't have to touch
> the clutch pedel in trafic, it could also slip it if your in
> second from full stop. Thus you change like normal.
>
> But you car won't use the 15% of the power like a normal automatic
> with torque converter. You will get the economy, and even in that
> auto clutch mode you can still do wheel spins away from the junction
> (the best way of stopping pedestreians from crossing inf ront of you)
> becasue you should be able to get 5000 rpm's before it engadges.
>
>
> Yep, I'm going to design one, that ties onto the hydrolic system.
>
> How can you tell if the car infront is an auto? You've just
> overtaken them.
> --
> James Carpenter
> Yellow '79 spit wired by a trained marmot
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