Scooby Don't

[Aaron Gibson]

I watched the Subie guys change a transmission in 20 minutes at Maine
forest one year. From what I understand they keep 3
spares on the truck at all times. I dont think it matters what the road
conditions are.


Yea

Brett Dikeman wrote:

> At 2:48 PM -0700 3/1/03, Benjamin Weste Pearre wrote:
>
>>  I have a friend with a WRX who impressed me with his
>> studded Hakka1s (yeah, we were in my car because Audi transmissions
>> aren't made out of glass)
>
>
> The club region VP does a lot of rallying here in the northeast, and
> said word among that crowd is that WRX trannies are getting chewed up
> left and right on roadcars that are driven hard.
>
> According to the gravevine, rallying or just driven mostly on dirt
> roads, they seem to do just fine, even if driven hard.  The popular
> theory is the transmission can't take the torque 'shock' from hard
> pavement driving; on dirt, there's no real shock to the transmission,
> since no individual wheel has much traction.  Call it 'traction
> contrast' if you want, perhaps.
>
> Bob, Scott- you guys hearing similar things in your rallying circles?
>
> Brett
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