> Anyway, I was interested to read and have
> heard before that the OD works in
> 3rd and 4th. This is a little confusing to me...
> Does it mean you have like a 3 and a half gear
> and then a 5th???
I'm sure someone will calculate all the ratios out and
give you a more definitive answer, but it seems to me
that it results in something more akin to "two fourth
gears and a fifth."
In my (admittedly unscientific) seat-of-the-pants
evaluation, third gear with overdrive results in
almost identical revs per MPH as fourth gear without
overdrive. (If the tach didn't bounce around over a
range of a couple hundred RPM I could probably pin it
down a little more accurately...)
So it seems that offering OD in third is aimed more as
a lazy person's convenience. Like maybe when driving
calmly on a winding road where you could ordinarily be
shifting somewhat frequently between third and fourth.
But it doesn't feel like a "six speed".
Cheers,
=====
Paul Misencik
1971 MGB Tourer - Blaze
Huntersville, NC USA
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