[s-cars] Auto box on S4/S6

[Calvin & Diana Craig]

Some of it is the fact that the auto's take more parasitic horsepower.  Some
of it has to do with the gear ratios as you stated.  As far as 4 vs. 5 spds
goes on autos, the idea is that going to a 5 speed allows you to keep a
similar overdrive but spread the other gears out further.  I will have to
say that after driving a FWD Jetta 1.8T with the new 5 spd auto it was a
VERY QUICK car, much quicker than the A4 with a stick.  Which leads to the
other point which is that the auto with an AWD system has probably got a
little extra penalty thrown in over and above the stick.  At least from all
my drag racing experience, a properly geared stick, with a good launch, etc.
will always outperform the auto in moderately fast cars (>12 sec. 1/4 mile
times).  Now, the other side of the coin is that the guy driving the auto
may hit within 0.1 seconds of his best run every run, whereas the guy
driving the stick will have pretty large variances, especially in a car with
wheelspin issues.
--Calvin Craig
Parker, CO
'92 S4
'91 200 TQ
'89 200 TQW
'72 Formula Firebird

-----Original Message-----
From: s-car-list-admin at audifans.com
[mailto:s-car-list-admin at audifans.com]On Behalf Of Chris Covington
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 1:07 PM
To: FvAMI at aol.com
Cc: mail at red-wing.co.uk; s-car-list at audifans.com
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Auto box on S4/S6


But what do the amount of speeds have to do with how fast it is?  I
don't see how one taller overdrive gear would help the 0-60.  There
are lots of really fast 2 speed (Powerglide) drag cars, which are even
faster with that tranny than with a stick.

Maybe the gearing is really bad in 1st and 2nd on that tranny.  Does
anyone know the gear ratios?  Or maybe the stall speed on the torque
converter is really low..  I'm always puzzles why auto Audis are SO much
slower than their stick counterparts (30V auto, Passat W8 auto, V8 auto),
when this isn't as significantly so with other marques.

Chris
'91 200q20v


On Wed, 29 May 2002 FvAMI at aol.com wrote:

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> In a message dated 5/29/02 6:49:35 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> mail at red-wing.co.uk writes:
>
>
> > And the auto S4 is slower 0-60 than the
> > 2.8 V6.
> >
> >
>
> I believe it also only a four speed auto.
>
> Best regards,
> Feico van der Laan
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