Why are there so many bloody autos!

nickyboy · Post by **nickyboy** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 3:54 pm

First of all, i'm not dissing the auto, it's just not what i'm after. But why are so many automatic?

Every car maker makes an automatic, but not to the same ratio as the Prelude.

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 4:09 pm

just means there are loads of engines that havnt been thrashed to death and loads of cars that have been looked after more than the bb1,s

nickyboy · Post by **nickyboy** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 4:12 pm

It's good to open up a car to it's maximum revs every now and then, especially VTECs. Can you actually thrash a DOHC VTEC engine?

Post by **Pushki** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 4:23 pm

nickyboy wrote:Can you actually thrash a DOHC VTEC engine?

There's a red line on the rev counter. Red spells DANGER!!

nickyboy · Post by **nickyboy** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 4:26 pm

Bouncing off the limiter constantly yes, but only an idiot would do that.

Post by **Pushki** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 4:30 pm

You'd be surprised!

Post by **rob quilter** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 5:14 pm

Buy one and swap it for a manual box

nickyboy · Post by **nickyboy** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 5:16 pm

rob quilter wrote:Buy one and swap it for a manual box

If I could do it myself mate aye, but i'm no mechanic, and there's no specialists up here.

How much work is involved?

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 5:40 pm

not much more than a clutch change

nickyboy · Post by **nickyboy** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 5:48 pm

Easy for a non specialist? What about ECUs? And of course the centre console swap