My only comment is that the Pony is basically indestructible (They didn't
make it to the States, did they?) - being a former owner, I'd compare it to
a Land-Rover: You have to keep it tuned, but it willl never let you down if
you do! They do, however, start rusting as soon as the humidity gets above
like 10%.
PLUS, these trannies are available for like $50-$100 used, and my car is run
on an extremely tight budget (I have under $2000 cdn. into it over the past
8 years, including purchasing it, and I put about 15,000 miles on it a year)
so I am absolutely NOT going to be putting an o/d tranny in it. I don't
have the cash, but I have the ability to make something else fit!
Luke Lewis
'71 Spit - "Fireball"
London, Ont. Canada
>
> Considering that the Pony's are thought of to be the dogs -- and that the
> Pony transmission seems to be the one that supposedly fits on a
Spitfire --
> it would appear that even if the transmission fits -- it wouldn't be worth
> all the time and trouble of attempting the conversion, since the
> transmission would likely fail as quickly as a stock version.
>
> In other words, no net gains over a standard Spitfire O/D transmission
> whatsoever.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Jeff in San Diego
>
> '67 RHD Spitfire Mk3 aka "Mrs. Jones"
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> http://www.ohms.com/spitfire/spitfire.shtml
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>
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
> To: Simmons, Reid W <reid.w.simmons@intel.com>
> Cc: 'Joe Curry' <spitlist@gte.net>; Fred Griffiths
> <griffco@mail.cadvision.com>; <spitfires@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 1:16 PM
> Subject: Re: Spitfire/Hyundai Transmission
>
>
> >
> > "Simmons, Reid W" wrote:
> > >
> > > Joe has a good point. There was a time only a few years ago when many
> banks
> > > would not issue a car loan on a Hyundai due to their exceptionally
poor
> > > quality (thousands of disgruntled owners would eventually just walk
away
> > > from these troublesome cars and let the banks reposes them).
> >
> > The Pony-era Hyundais were pretty lousy.
> >
> > The Excel-era Hyundais were decent.
> >
> > The modern Hyundais (Accent, Tiburon) are very nicely done and
> > phenomenal value for money. They really did turn it around, much
> > like Japan did over the 60s and early 70s.
> >
> > If the transmission comes from any semi-recent Hyundai, it'll
> > probably go forever.
> >
> > --
> > Trevor Boicey, P. Eng.
> > Ottawa, Canada, tboicey@brit.ca
> > ICQ #17432933 http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
> > "You only say that when I've made an appalling cock-up." - Jim Hacker
> >
>
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