NoCoast Grant Hughes Professional Moderator Location: Whitefish, MT Join Date: 01/11/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 6,818 Rally Car: BMW |
I like Wikipedia's list of cars it came in.
So that would make this the non-performance version right? |
john vanlandingham John Vanlandingham Professional Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
You have a car that runs, therefore it could be of interest to you. Timmay as we all know, doesn't, and therefore isn't, and won't. John Vanlandingham Sleezattle, WA, USA Vive le Prole-le-ralliat www.rallyrace.net/jvab CALL +1 206 431-9696 Remember! Pacific Standard Time is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time. |
john vanlandingham John Vanlandingham Professional Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
It's about one thing: a STRAIGHT slap back to go from whatever is "next to last gear" to top. Imagine whipping along about 100 and having to do the stupid jog for 5th versus slapping the stick straight back. When you're going fast you want to controls to be foolproof and normal 5ths are often sketch and stupid (and if you don't think so then you haven't driven hard enough on a road with curves). John Vanlandingham Sleezattle, WA, USA Vive le Prole-le-ralliat www.rallyrace.net/jvab CALL +1 206 431-9696 Remember! Pacific Standard Time is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time. |
NoCoast Grant Hughes Professional Moderator Location: Whitefish, MT Join Date: 01/11/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 6,818 Rally Car: BMW |
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john vanlandingham John Vanlandingham Professional Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
Exactly. Whatever it is if its going to be a floor shift when its really going fast, you want it easy 'wham" straight back and straight forward for the downshift. Realistically 99.99% of every car sold people are using top for cruise, for lower revs so its not some frantic thing like in those Finnish Starlets where it's crazy tight and possibly rutted and maybe bumpy and you need to hang on. When I've been overseas renting rental cars I've been driving hard on "B" roads and doing a hail-mary pass in 4th and have missed 5th, hit 3rd at 90mph and seen the tach needle bouncing off the stop 2-3 times. Scary! Of course my only rally car has the closest thing to paddle shifter you can have with having paddle and all I need to do is spread the fingers to do a gearchange: right where Gawd intended---not down on the floor someplace (ugh) John Vanlandingham Sleezattle, WA, USA Vive le Prole-le-ralliat www.rallyrace.net/jvab CALL +1 206 431-9696 Remember! Pacific Standard Time is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time. |
heymagic Banned Mega Moderator Location: La la land Join Date: 01/25/2006 Age: Fossilized Posts: 3,740 Rally Car: Not a Volvo |
I pretty much always rallied my Datsuns with a dogleg trans. With 4:88 or 5:13 gears first is just to get you rolling a few feet. So your normal business is a conventional H pattern, pretty fool proof. After the start 1st and reverse are pretty much for mistakes so it's ok to have to hunt for them.
JVL lighten up on Timmay...he'll get that car done...about 6 mos after the last US rally happens. |
john vanlandingham John Vanlandingham Professional Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
Mistakes or parking/pulling into garage or up onto the trailer.
Yeah. You're right. About in time for the first World Grass-o-cross Gamez John Vanlandingham Sleezattle, WA, USA Vive le Prole-le-ralliat www.rallyrace.net/jvab CALL +1 206 431-9696 Remember! Pacific Standard Time is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time. Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/10/2011 12:16PM by john vanlandingham. |
dirty_d Brandon B Elite Moderator Location: NE Ohio Join Date: 09/14/2010 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 83 Rally Car: wabbit season |
http://community.ratsun.net/topic/31738-5-speed-transmission-rebuilt/
here's a longer tail one for sale in nocal for $150. Another guy posted in the thread the measurement differences between the long tail and short tail transmissions so you can tell a bit more what you got. Dogleg's not worth a lot, but a pretty solid gearbox. i have one in my 510 anyhow. To sell em off you might post em up on ratsun or the510realm. |