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Date:         Sat, 29 Dec 2007 10:09:25 -0800
Reply-To:     pedro dos santos <pedrokrusher@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         pedro dos santos <pedrokrusher@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Any real automatic trans upgrade for vanagon?
Comments: To: Scott Daniel - Shazam <scottdaniel@turbovans.com>
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Hi Scott

when I sent a message yesterday to transaxle engineering, minutes later I received a message saying there was no mailbox... oh well. I'll gonna have to call next monday I guess.

I am just not knowledgeable enough in the tranny department to understand all these gearing numbers. If someone can say that one of those gearings can obtain less than 3000RPM at 100km/h that would really great!

And yes I do expect to pay in the 2k to 3k range to have what I want (porsche auto tranny still tempting).

Pedro

--- Scott Daniel - Shazam <scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:

> Hey, all right, thanks for posting the link. > The show a race winning 3 speed automatic transaxle. > http://www.transaxleengineering.com/automatic_trans.html > > not sure what they mean though....the mention ring > and pinions of 4.11, > 4.56, and 4.86 ... > 4.11 would be pretty high so that sounds good. > Then they say 'final drive ratio' from 2.60 to 8.80. > Not sure what to make of that. > Also, a nice racing transaxle like > that.................well, some people's > entire vanagon didn't cost them as much as one of > these transaxles costs > I'll bet. You are looking at something in the > thousands. At least $ > 2,500 , if not 3,500 is my guess, and more than > that. > Maybe that can do something stock-based that's got > the right gearing and not > all that expensive. > But we'd sure have the gearing we'd like with that > box all right ! > Scott > www.turbovans.com


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