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From: John Larkin on 31 May 2010 16:06 On Mon, 31 May 2010 10:21:07 -0700, Joerg <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: > >My 1987 model Audi station gets over 25mpg at that speed, even while >fully loaded with half a ton of stuff. It's still roaming the Autobahns, >often long haul Germany-Sweden. I really miss that car. This is claimed to do 155 MPH. The mileage probably isn't very good at that speed. ftp://jjlarkin.lmi.net/A3a.jpg I didn't intend to buy this much car; I just wanted a Rabbit with 4WD. And I didn't want anything that was black, white, or grey. The drive train is sort of weird. It's a 6-speed automatic with basically two transmissions, one for odd gears and one for even, two clutches, no torque converter. John
From: Joerg on 31 May 2010 17:16 John Larkin wrote: > On Mon, 31 May 2010 10:21:07 -0700, Joerg <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> > wrote: > > >> My 1987 model Audi station gets over 25mpg at that speed, even while >> fully loaded with half a ton of stuff. It's still roaming the Autobahns, >> often long haul Germany-Sweden. I really miss that car. > > This is claimed to do 155 MPH. The mileage probably isn't very good at > that speed. > > ftp://jjlarkin.lmi.net/A3a.jpg > Neat. But I wouldn't want to crash in it at 155mph. I had the big old fat one, a station wagon called "Avant". With the smallest possible engine they offered, only 1.8l and it topped out somewhere around 115mph. On Sunday afternoons (when all of Germany watches soccer) on the way to a client in Bavaria I could open her up, floor it, and stay at top speed 80% of the time. But you had to ease off 15 minutes before getting there, it wouldn't be good to turn off an engine that hot. It did have a fan that would keep running for a while but when people did that you could hear the water inside the engine beginning to boil. > I didn't intend to buy this much car; I just wanted a Rabbit with 4WD. > And I didn't want anything that was black, white, or grey. > > The drive train is sort of weird. It's a 6-speed automatic with > basically two transmissions, one for odd gears and one for even, two > clutches, no torque converter. > I've never liked automatics, never had one. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ "gmail" domain blocked because of excessive spam. Use another domain or send PM.
From: John Larkin on 1 Jun 2010 19:46
On Mon, 31 May 2010 14:16:13 -0700, Joerg <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: >John Larkin wrote: >> On Mon, 31 May 2010 10:21:07 -0700, Joerg <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> >> wrote: >> >> >>> My 1987 model Audi station gets over 25mpg at that speed, even while >>> fully loaded with half a ton of stuff. It's still roaming the Autobahns, >>> often long haul Germany-Sweden. I really miss that car. >> >> This is claimed to do 155 MPH. The mileage probably isn't very good at >> that speed. >> >> ftp://jjlarkin.lmi.net/A3a.jpg >> > >Neat. But I wouldn't want to crash in it at 155mph. I had the big old >fat one, a station wagon called "Avant". With the smallest possible >engine they offered, only 1.8l and it topped out somewhere around >115mph. On Sunday afternoons (when all of Germany watches soccer) on the >way to a client in Bavaria I could open her up, floor it, and stay at >top speed 80% of the time. But you had to ease off 15 minutes before >getting there, it wouldn't be good to turn off an engine that hot. It >did have a fan that would keep running for a while but when people did >that you could hear the water inside the engine beginning to boil. I have snow tires. They'd probably explode into shreds around 150 MPH. > > >> I didn't intend to buy this much car; I just wanted a Rabbit with 4WD. >> And I didn't want anything that was black, white, or grey. >> >> The drive train is sort of weird. It's a 6-speed automatic with >> basically two transmissions, one for odd gears and one for even, two >> clutches, no torque converter. >> > >I've never liked automatics, never had one. I finally gave in, after all these years. A clutch is a serious nuisance in traffic on the hills here, and I wanted the girls to be comfortable driving it too. You can sequentially paddle-shift this if you want to, which makes it sort of like driving a motorcycle. I got this used from a guy who, when he had a job, had six boy-toy cars. He needed to get out from under the lease. It's the V6 that they don't make any more. All the A3s are 4-cyl turbos now, about as fast but they feel like turbos. Press. Wait. Zoom! Transmissions are interesting. We have 95% efficient, stepup/stepdown, continuously variable switching regulators. The MEs can only dream of a mechanical equivalent. P&W, one of my customers, is sticking a gearbox into the middle of a jet engine, to better match the impedances of the turbines and the compressors. 32,000 horsepower through a fairly small gearbox. John |