Thus spake Dickr > :
>On 1/22/2012 11:38 AM, wrote:
>> On Jan 21, 12:11 pm, > wrote:
>>> On 1/20/2012 7:47 AM, wrote:> Lexus and Hyundai currently have 8. Dodge will soon have 9. Now
>>>> seems Hyundai is upping the ante and developing a 10-speed automatic
>>>> transmission. Good god, where does this end? Soon cars will be
>>>> sporting enough gears to make a trucker blush.
>>>> Patrick
>>> A friend of mine had a 1957 Chev with a 283 V8, loud dual exhaust and a
>>> Turboglide
>>> transmission. Very different steady tune from the exhaust while the car
>>> increased
>>> in speed but the engine RPM didn't change that much.
>>> Because of its unique operating characteristics, Turboglide did not
>>> require large changes
>>> in engine RPM even with very large differences in car speed or desired
>>> engine output. In fact,
>>> accelerating from rest, the engine speed would remain nearly
>>> constant(with no movement of
>>> the accelerator), even as the vehicle accelerated.
>> Dick,
>>
>> Are you speaking of GM's old 2-speed Powerglide?
>>
>> I had one of those 2-speeds in a 60's Impala I used to own.
>>
>> Patrick
>>
>Nope, the Powerglide was a different transmission.
>Dick
By most counts, the Poweglide is the most used transmission in racing.
Primarily because of the monsterous number of cars running one in drag
racing. I've even seen 2002 F-Birds running one, since by the time
you can manage to get to third you're shutting down.
I'll have one in my 351W (408) car. But not a GM product per se'
--
- dillon I am not invalid
So Kim Jung Ill shows up at the barbecue. "Wait,"
says Qadaffi, "you don't have any peircings." "If you
starve your people enough they'll be too weak to rebbel."
"You have the same number of holes in your head as when
you were born," says bin Laden. "My compound had radar
and antiacraft misslles." "Your neck," shouted Hussein,
"it's the same length." "I didn't **** on W's father."
"Then what happened?" the three asked. "Damned counterfiet
Lipitor and insulin!"