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Cheaper...(more) 200 86

posted by  someone claiming to be Marty Romeo on  Mon Dec 11 10:38 CST 2000 [RELATED]

Why design/build a new tranny case and add a gear when you can keep your production 4-speed and add a separate, electrically-operated, transmission to the rear of the existing tranny with lower than 1-to-1 gearing? The move to the straight 5-speed was, IMHO, good for the N/A cars, but once you've seen a 240 making more than 200 Hp and the 5-speed blows apart, then that M46 starts looking mighty nice. BTW, my M46 has held up under HUGE torque loads (at 18 psi in my rather heavily modified 242Ti I'm at about 280 rear-wheel Hp, about 350 lb-ft of torque), no problems.





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