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Old 10-05-2008, 02:42 PM   #16
SedonaScooby
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1987 Brat GL 4 Speed
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Originally Posted by Great Cthulhu View Post
Yuppers, I was thinking that might be the case; but Tim and PIA have both told me that auto-tranny's in WRX's have more spine than the earlier model manual tranny's, aided by the TC absorbing power onset "shock" before transmitting it on down to the wheels. With a transmission cooler I could up the horsepower quite a bit without worrying about breaking anything, especially since I'm not planning on making this a drag-racer.

PIA (Hi Steve!) installed the tranny cooler for me yesterday. At this point, the experts I've spoken to say that I'm good up to 350hp at the crank before I have to worry about breaking anything downstream--not that I'm ever going to get up that high: Jezabel is a really fun DD, but that's it.
i mean abusing your auto tranny by down/upshifting like its a auto....

is it a tiptronic type set up or what? are you able to bump down gears easily or is it just a simple D-3-2-1 set up?
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