If you could mate any engine to any transmission, what would you pick and why?
Are all manual gearboxes preferable to automatics?
What transmission that you've driven is your favorite? Something manual? Something automatic? Or perhaps something else entirely?
Has there ever been a car that's rarer to be fitted with an automatic over a manual transmission?
How well your car performs–and how nicely it drives–can often depend upon your clutch. Here's how to tell if it's time for an upgrade.
Transmission internals are subject to intense stresses. Crack checking and polishing can help ensure that those stresses don’t lead to failures down the road.
Manual transmissions might be crude, simple devices, but that doesn't mean improvements can't be made.
What's a torque converter, and what does it actually do? We're glad you asked.
There are lots of ways to adjust gearing.
I’d purchased perhaps the world’s cheapest running, driving 981-chassis Cayman, buying this 2014 Porsche for just $15,000 last year.
Actual wrenching progress on our former ASA stock car project has been slow.
Honestly there’s a LOT of research to do before we break out the socket set …
Thank you, Toyota. Thanks for making such a modular set of drivetrain bits that a transmission from decades ago is adaptable to an engine design still in use today. That …
Last week, before getting hurricaned by our friend Nicole, we dropped off our MR2’s E153 five-speed transaxle and a shiny new Quaife helical limited-slip diff at
Our Elva sports racer’s rear transmission mounts bolted directly to a plate at the back of the frame. While not the preferred mounting system for a street car, …
