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14th Dec, 2006 at 09:41:03pm

ookkk..sorry lol.

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15th Dec, 2006 at 04:48:04pm

As the gears are SC, it surely would be more easy to put a very nicely made spacer in between the box and diff housing and use 2 brand new gears.

Hmmm :)

Bugger off, I'm getting there.

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15th Dec, 2006 at 05:18:09pm

You've not thought very hard about this have you Stu....
LOL!

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15th Dec, 2006 at 06:39:07pm




On 14th of Dec, 2006 at 06:27pm stevieturbo said:
IMO, as far as turbocharged cars go...I dont really see the point of a 5 speed, unless you can make an overdriven 5th gear.

Even with a 3.11 diff and 13" wheels, the gearing is too short ( I feel anyway )


Overdrive 5th = power loss that is why modern cars obtain their top speed in 4th not usually 5th gear

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15th Dec, 2006 at 06:56:34pm

It's nowt to do with power loss - it's just to pull the revs down for economy.

If you ran a lower axle ratio (same percentage difference as the drop from 4th to 5th) you'd see little difference in top speed. sure - you'll lose a little - but it'd be little in the whole scale of things. :)

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15th Dec, 2006 at 09:17:30pm




On 15th of Dec, 2006 at 06:39pm Scruffy said:


On 14th of Dec, 2006 at 06:27pm stevieturbo said:
IMO, as far as turbocharged cars go...I dont really see the point of a 5 speed, unless you can make an overdriven 5th gear.

Even with a 3.11 diff and 13" wheels, the gearing is too short ( I feel anyway )


Overdrive 5th = power loss that is why modern cars obtain their top speed in 4th not usually 5th gear


That may have been the case years ago when cars had only 3bhp.

Most modern cars with an decent amount of power, will top out, in top gear, usually 5th.

Cruising at 70mph at 3500rpm+, just isnt very nice, and there's no call for it really.
It baffles me now, how I drove the 1000+ or so miles I did on my first round trip to Santa Pod 12 years ago including blackpool, london and other destinations that long weekend in my Mini !!!!!

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15th Dec, 2006 at 09:34:58pm

Young and Stupid?

btw - is your granny the Ghia X with the electric seats???

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16th Dec, 2006 at 12:16:23am

Someone has stuck an X badge on the boot ( trunk for you lol ), but it isnt an X...at least I dont think it is.

Not even sure if the earlier pre-facelift cars ever had electric seats anyway. I know some of the later 81 onwards cars did, but they are quite different to my early car.
It has the usual, PAS, electric windows, manual sunroof, used to have aircon too, which I thought a bit odd for a 2.8i Ghia. Maybe that might be X equipment ??

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16th Dec, 2006 at 12:22:10am

Ghia X or not X I still think its bloody cool!


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16th Dec, 2006 at 02:31:02am

I remember stripping a GhiaX which i ended up banger racing, and that was full electrics and aircon. Took bloomin ages getting all the crap out of it... I seem to recall it was on a Y-plate (whatever year that makes it)?

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16th Dec, 2006 at 03:19:49am

Y plate was 82-83 if I remember rightly??


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16th Dec, 2006 at 12:54:26pm

That would be a facelift car....

Doors, bumpers, interior are all very different to the pre-facelift. My original black car was a 79 Saphire T reg, and I wanted a similar pre-facelift car to replace it, green one on a W plate. They only made them from 78-late 80, maybe a little of 81.

For 2 cars that everyone sees as the same, they really are very different.

I had a 2.8 Ghia circa 84 I converted to diesel once. It had electric seats, windows etc, although it was just a Ghia. Not sure what X equipment was.

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