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Re: A-H shift patterns

To: british-cars@hoosier, jeb@mtqua.att.com
Subject: Re: A-H shift patterns
From: robbp@healey_haven.esd.sgi.com (Robb Pryor)
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1993 08:40:09 -0700
On Aug 17,  9:09am, jeb@mtqua.att.com wrote:
> Subject: Re: Jester's Spitfires
> Jim Beckman   AH-100  (BN1 with the world's strangest shift pattern)
> 
>                           2
>                           |
>                           -----------
>                           |    |    |
>                           3    1    R
> 
> 
>-- End of excerpt from jeb@mtqua.att.com

The reason for the shift pattern is that the original first gear of the 
transmission was blocked off when it was adapted for use in the A-H 100/4.
The original first gear was too "low" for the car.  What you think of as
"first gear" is really second gear.



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