I seem to hear a lot about "modified" R/T autos that last about a day or
two! What do you have to say about that! I dont have to do anything to my
5-speed to make my truck go faster.
Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: WillTier@aol.com <WillTier@aol.com>
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Date: Saturday, May 15, 1999 10:48 PM
Subject: Re: DML: Auto vs 5 Sp perfectly clear :-)
|In a message dated 5/15/99 11:44:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
|Rekker21@aol.com writes:
|
|<< Bill, just a side note. Arent all those trucks pretty far up there on
the
| hp scale? So, what does an automatic have to do with the et's? I thought
it
| was the HP that makes it go, the trans just shifts gears right? So, if
you
| would like to say that autos must be the choice of the top fastest trucks
| thats fine. Maybe they are the most durable and most reliable as far as
| shifting goes, but I hardly think that the tranny is what makes them the
| fastest trucks out there. >>
|
|Well I just assumed that they were probably racing 5 sps to get where they
|are ? :-)
|And those with 5 sps have same access to HP parts as auto guys but all the
|top runners on the page were autos seems though that just makes em the
winner
|:-)
|
|I know what your saying and your line of reasoning, lots of variables fer
|shurrrr. I just got to noticing that the top 7 were autos and just had to
|pick a little more with all this auto 5sp debate going again. If it wasn't
|fer you 5sp guys then who could we pick on :-)
|
|Hey they had one of them 5.0 rangers up to where we race last year (with a
|auto :-) ) and the guy ran a 13.9X with it. They run pretty good but their
|still a Ferd :-)
|
|Peace :-)
|Bill
|
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