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Anyone ever know anyone who has done an turbo a series auto.

I have a slight disablility with my right arm and cannot drive a manual car but have done everything i want to do to my car apart from the Turbo.

I know it would be possible but would it work or would the gearbox be to weak all help much appreciated.

bad idea of good idea???

Anything is possible!

Start with a low-boost conversion and take it from there.

I do feel a supercharger would make for a nicer overall setup though...

I agree with Dave on this, supercharger would definatley make for a very smooth setup on an auto...

I doubt the auto box would like the kick from a turbo very much.

Never thought of it like that Pete, makes sense when you put it that way

Not often i disagree with Pete.

BUT

Having been in my mates gen2 Eclipse (evo3 engine basically) I can honestly say that I'd rather never have a turbo engine mated to an auto-box for a road car.

Dragging is one thing - you shift hard and the torque convertor multiplies and fills in the gaps between the shifts that you'd see on a manual trans - but for a road car (given my experience with my friends motor) I'd not be going that way personally unless you were building a VERY mild turbo motor with a high CR and low boost.

Just out of interest is there anything i can do to improve on the auto gearbox?

Also does anyone know of any really fast auto a series engines and what people did to them ive upgraded mini from a 998 tyo a 1275 spi and put a 1.75 carb on was wondering other than the turbo what people did and how they succeded?

Thanks to everyone for being very helpfull i am deffinetly interested in a turbo auto engine now

A great book on the subject of tuning a series engines is David Vizard "Tuning the A series Engine".

This book covers every aspect of tuning the a series, well worth getting hold of it and having a read.

There is a lot you can do to an auto - but the problemis finding someone who can...

Ive read 90% of the book but i dont think he mentions the auto Gearbox :(

Got a cheap 1275 auto mayfair, and a mirage thats going to be floating for a while, or shall i not waste my time and finish the pickup......

one at a time mate.... get that bloody TTv6 on the strip first

Yes i moved to the darkside

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DO IT! See is the box will really take it!

on the subject of auto's this is an interesting watch.

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=82943

and some other info.

http://www.austinmemories.com/page172A/page172.html

http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.cgi?...&page=1#1224279

Also allegedly MRA minis can supply uprated auto clutches and bands,

Tweek a sequential box somehow. Damn expensive though.