Scooby (Don't / Do / Oops)

[JShadzi at aol.com]

When it comes to fragile trannies the S4tt and A4's for that matter have been much less than reliable, especially in light of Audi's past (hold the stripped 1st gear UrS4 phenomenon), my 80tq still's on the original tranny with hard track days and smokey, 4 wheel 1-2 gear turn/burns at the track.  I agree though, not too many trannies will hold up to on-boost power shifts, you have to let off the throttle, shift, then get back into the boost very discretely, no getting sloppy or dragging clutches in high hp app's.

Javad

>There was a thread recently about Scooby tranny's.
>Yes they are more fragile than Gen I, II and maybe even later gen Quattros.
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>The reigning theory is that it has more to do with driving style than with
>surface friction.
>It seems the box is particularly fragile to hyper agressive shifting.
>Since we're all Audi people we can't imagine moving a gear shift fast
>enough to screw with synchros (har har), but it's very possible in the Suby
>world.
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>The WRX tranny seems to have fragile synchros and if you have a lot of
>torque before the gear is fully engaged then you can fracture the gear
>itself.
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>The current COBB tuning uber-WRX has something like 500hp running through a
>bone stock tranny.
>But they only get on the boost after the gear is fully engaged.
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>Just my $0.02
>Rob Dupree
>     84 UrQ - for sale
>     97 4-Runner
>     77 Dodge Colt
>     wanting a WRX
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