Manual Trans - Cost & Specs
12-02-2018, 11:00 PM
#46
Burning Brakes
Originally Posted by TomTarzian
6 MT would be great but any manual at all will be a big win, the way things are going.
God bless,
TT
God bless,
TT
12-24-2018, 10:21 PM
#48
Don't live in LA, but make regular weekday trips from NE PA to Manhattan. Leaving during the afternoon rush hour means a 1 to 2 hour stop and go literal crawl to the Lincoln Tunnel with merging lane chaos. 10 mph would feel like flying. Never had any problem handling it with a MT. That includes several Porsches, a Camaro Z28, a Pontiac GTO, and a few Volvos. Of course, I have been driving MT vehicles for 60+ years, beginning with farm trucks with non-synchro crash box transmissions. Try that at slow speed on a steep Vermont side hill while trying to maintain position alongside a tractor with a corn chopper blowing chopped corn into the back of the truck. Makes stop and go traffic in a MT Porsche seem like a piece of cake.
Last edited by verstraete; 12-24-2018 at 10:53 PM.
12-25-2018, 12:00 AM
#49
Drifting
Don't live in LA, but make regular weekday trips from NE PA to Manhattan. Leaving during the afternoon rush hour means a 1 to 2 hour stop and go literal crawl to the Lincoln Tunnel with merging lane chaos. 10 mph would feel like flying. Never had any problem handling it with a MT. That includes several Porsches, a Camaro Z28, a Pontiac GTO, and a few Volvos. Of course, I have been driving MT vehicles for 60+ years, beginning with farm trucks with non-synchro crash box transmissions. Try that at slow speed on a steep Vermont side hill while trying to maintain position alongside a tractor with a corn chopper blowing chopped corn into the back of the truck. Makes stop and go traffic in a MT Porsche seem like a piece of cake.
God bless,
TT
12-25-2018, 12:03 AM
#50
Rennlist Member
60+ years is about as long as I've been shifting, too. This afternoon a young friend told me his daughter has decided on a car with MT as her college graduation present...she didn't cost her parents a cent in college as she worked her way through school and the car is her reward. Maybe MTs are staging a comeback?
God bless,
TT
God bless,
TT
12-28-2018, 10:50 PM
#52
Rennlist Member
01-07-2019, 02:46 PM
#53
Three Wheelin'
