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On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 21:38, Jim Adney wrote: > On 19 May 2004 at 20:08, Russ Wolfe wrote: > > > You need to remember that the AT has a better highway gear ratio than > > the manual trans. > > But who knows whether the higher final drive ratio actually makes up for the > slipping in the non-lockup torque converter? You didn't have any trouble keeping up with John Jarenson's '66 on the way back from Parma. That would be an interesting experiment. Using one of Neil's tachs, ;=) in both a manual and an automatic car with the same tires, and see if there was any difference in the RPM at the same speed. -- Russ Wolfe '71 FB AT '66 FB MT '65 T1 (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org