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Re: Removing overdrive

To: <Popnglo@aol.com>, <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Removing overdrive
From: "Phil Ethier" <pethier@isd.net>
Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 23:59:50 -0500
References: <1a2.14c5bce0.2bf55a8b@aol.com>
> > It's very easy, you take out the transmission along with the overdrive,
> > bring the whole thing over here, and I'll give you a lovely TR3A
> > non-overdrive crash box in return :-)
>
>                                 DITTO

This reminds me of a similar deal I once did.  I had a K-car wagon and one
of the guys in our autocross club raced an Omni in Improved Touring.  He was
not yet down to weight, so he gave me his good 5-speed for the four-speed
from my car.  He never could use 5th gear anyway, even at Brainerd
International Raceway.

The funny part was that a buddy of mine and I went over to the guy's house
after a club meeting to pick up the transaxle.  In his Fiat X-1/9.  He
already had a spare Fiat transaxle in the front trunk.  So we wrestled the
Dodge transaxle into the back of the Fiat and drove to my house in a car
with three transaxles!

Phil Ethier  West Side  Saint Paul  Minnesota  USA
1970 Lotus Europa 65/2597, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1986 Suburban, 1962 TR4 CT2846L
pethier@isd.net  http://www.mnautox.com/  http://www.lotusowners.com

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