Next phase: You're clamoring for dog engagement 'boxes?

"Tentacle, Dutchman, drives French" (Tentacle) 01/20/2014 at 03:53 • Filed to: None

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Geez. I love my manual as much as you guys and girls. My oldest started young herself. (though that's easier for me to say as a European) but... get over it !

Next up you'll be wanting dog engagement gears, dogleg-for-first and unsynchronised gearboxes. Don't let this get into Obsessive territory :P

John Bulzacchelli > Tentacle, Dutchman, drives French 01/20/2014 at 04:25

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Yes please!

Tentacle, Dutchman, drives French > John Bulzacchelli 01/20/2014 at 04:34

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I can understand wanting a dog engagement gearbox. A dogleg-for-first too. But unsynchronised ?

But I assume that you were only saying "Yes please!" to the dog engagement 'box.

John Bulzacchelli > Tentacle, Dutchman, drives French 01/20/2014 at 04:58

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Dog engagement by its nature is unsynchronized. There is no thing as a syncho dog engagement. Its like a motorcycle transmission!

Tentacle, Dutchman, drives French > John Bulzacchelli 01/20/2014 at 05:02

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Ah, OK, I should have realised this myself.

I was more thinking about the need to double clutch. Which you don't need with a dog engagement box, as far as I know. (Though downshifts are often single clutched.)

Ramblin Rover - The Vivisector of Solihull > Tentacle, Dutchman, drives French 01/20/2014 at 08:57

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I already have a car with non-synchro 1st/2nd. I'm good.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Tentacle, Dutchman, drives French 01/20/2014 at 10:57

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All hail the dogleg.

John Bulzacchelli > Tentacle, Dutchman, drives French 01/20/2014 at 18:19

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Ah you are thinking of boxes which aren't constant mesh. Those are no fun...

Those are often called "crash-boxes" because the gear teeth crash into each other if the shift isn't prefect.