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May 14, 2009 9:27 p.m. Type Q HalfDork

Strizzo wrote:

jp wrote:

I would add any classic Saab 900 with the automatic transmission. The Saab 2 liter is reliable, torqey, good sounding, and highly turbo boostable, but you'd never know it with the unreliable, prone to being out of whack, slow shifting, high revving 3 speed automatic. I've had good 3 speed automatics, and what Saab used isn't one of them. The Saab 5 speed is much nicer.

well, that could bring yet another list. top 10 great engine/chassis combos ruined by a slushbox

First nomination: NEON
May 14, 2009 9:38 p.m. ReverendDexter HalfDork

For the "top 10 great engine/chassis combos ruined by a slushbox", I submit "anything with less than 250 lbs of torque at the crank", followed by "anything with an engine designed to rev past 5500rpm".
May 14, 2009 9:43 p.m. Capt Slow Reader

isn't this a bit redundant? all cars with automatics are by definition ruined...

Type Q wrote:

Strizzo wrote:

jp wrote:

I would add any classic Saab 900 with the automatic transmission. The Saab 2 liter is reliable, torqey, good sounding, and highly turbo boostable, but you'd never know it with the unreliable, prone to being out of whack, slow shifting, high revving 3 speed automatic. I've had good 3 speed automatics, and what Saab used isn't one of them. The Saab 5 speed is much nicer.

well, that could bring yet another list. top 10 great engine/chassis combos ruined by a slushbox

First nomination: NEON
May 14, 2009 10:21 p.m. dansxr2 Reader

I would have another nimination for the best chassis in need of a better engine. I have a VW Corrado with the G60 engine. That car handles amazingly and has plenty of oomph, but I'm always scared to rev it in fear od the charger exploding and putting a hole in the hood. Now that car is dead with a bad auto transmission, I'm considering selling it but who noes...
May 14, 2009 10:40 p.m. 2002maniac New Reader

mad_machine wrote:

P71 wrote:

mad_machine wrote:

didn;t C&D once put an odyessy up against an XK-E through a handling course.. and the van trounced the Jag?

Um, no. That was GRM and the Oddy trounced a classic 911 and the Jag. For shame thinking it was somebody else!

It was one of the "other" mags.. as I read the story when the Odyessy first came out and LONG before I knew about GRM

I refuse to believe that any mag other than GRm would have the balls to race a minivan against two classic sports cars.

That was one of my favorite articles of all times.
May 15, 2009 11:21 a.m. 96DXCivic Reader

Does anyone know of a way to swap to a different transmission on an SHO?
May 15, 2009 12:29 p.m. P71 Dork

The easiest way is to stick a T-5 behind it and weld the sucker into a Merkur XR4Ti...