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Old July 8th 05, 05:28 PM
Greg
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>IMHO, automatics are for top fuel dragsters and cars that your granny
>would drive.


not many grannys would stick there foot to the floor on my automatic
equiped supercharged and intercooled 87 for long (grin)
Greg

On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 08:35:16 -0700, Crabs > wrote:

>Tristan Austin wrote:
>> So far all the ones I've seen advertised have been autos, but I'm happy to
>> go with a manual.

>Tristan:
>The 4+3 is the manual transmission with an "automatic" overdrive unit
>attached to the back. Here's a really good write up on it:
>http://corvetteobsession.homestead.c...formation.html
>It seems to be luck of the draw, some people have problems, some do not.
>The automatics in these year cars are fairly bullet proof, as much as
>any automatic transmission can be.
>If I were to have to choose between an similarly equipped 4+3 or an
>automatic, I'd probably go with the 4+3. At least with the 4+3, if it
>gives you problems, you just drop in a Richmond or ZF 6 speed later.
>Besides, I just love banging gears.
>IMHO, automatics are for top fuel dragsters and cars that your granny
>would drive.
>
>TomC
>'90 ZR1


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