Seems to me that if I was going to waste a number of gears in a tranny by not
using them, that I'd get a bunch of gears ground up with very similar ratios.
Then, if a specific run was faster or slower than expected, I could change
gears up or down to adapt. You'd get the same effect as a rear end gear change
only "on the fly".
Just a thought.
Simon Smith
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> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 1:25 PM
> To: bbutters@dmi.net; land-speed@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Bonneville Transmissions
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> Elmo Gillette told me his general practice with the Ardun Red Head
> streamliner was to run high gear only, a heavy steel flywheel and a
> Long-style clutch(easier to hold in for starting). Push the car up to
> 60+ mph with the truck, let the clutch in and chug away up to top speed
> on the Long Course. He said it was easier on the driver not to shift
> gears; just steer and keep the gas pedal down all the way. Bill
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