CVT in a Porsche?
05-03-2012, 06:23 PM
#18
Rocky Mountain High
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05-03-2012, 07:34 PM
#19
Me too!
The experience was like driving with a constantly slipping clutch. Would have preferred a straight auto to that sentra thing.
Although... it was the last car I had to drive before my 996. So as far as pallet cleansers go, perfect.
05-03-2012, 07:49 PM
#20
Race Director
The reason I asked was that I thought F1 banned CVT in '93 because of its advantage over semi-auto transmissions. It's been 20 years, I would have thought that CVT would have made its way to today's sports cars.
http://youtu.be/x3UpBKXMRto
http://youtu.be/x3UpBKXMRto
In street cars the engines of cars that have a CVT are designed/tuned to reach an optimum rpm range and stay there as this is where they are most efficient. These engines need a CVT to deliver their best.
Just fitting a CVT into a car equipped and designed/intended to work with a non-CVT transmission would result in something less than the sum of its parts.
Sincerely,
Macster.
05-04-2012, 01:12 PM
#24
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I felt a little snarky yesterday and I didn't have any meetings or anything going on at work to properly vent. 
Not to start another oil discussion, but same here. I switched to Rotella from Mobile1 in my old Audi S4 and several small oil leaks that had been annoying me for as long as I'd owned the car magically went away. The 911 seems to really "like" it as well. Maybe it's all mental, but that good enough for me, since 90% of the "problems" with most people's cars come from their head anyway...
Not to start another oil discussion, but same here. I switched to Rotella from Mobile1 in my old Audi S4 and several small oil leaks that had been annoying me for as long as I'd owned the car magically went away. The 911 seems to really "like" it as well. Maybe it's all mental, but that good enough for me, since 90% of the "problems" with most people's cars come from their head anyway...
05-04-2012, 01:40 PM
#25
Race Director
I felt a little snarky yesterday and I didn't have any meetings or anything going on at work to properly vent.
Not to start another oil discussion, but same here. I switched to Rotella from Mobile1 in my old Audi S4 and several small oil leaks that had been annoying me for as long as I'd owned the car magically went away. The 911 seems to really "like" it as well. Maybe it's all mental, but that good enough for me, since 90% of the "problems" with most people's cars come from their head anyway...
Not to start another oil discussion, but same here. I switched to Rotella from Mobile1 in my old Audi S4 and several small oil leaks that had been annoying me for as long as I'd owned the car magically went away. The 911 seems to really "like" it as well. Maybe it's all mental, but that good enough for me, since 90% of the "problems" with most people's cars come from their head anyway...
As I'd guess do 90% of the cures.
Sincerely,
Macster.
05-04-2012, 05:38 PM
#30
There you go being observant again.
Since this thread is about pouring out a thousand words with no avail. May I suggest posting pictures so that we can partake in a picture is worth a thousand words?
