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Re: Honda Add, 7 speed auto???

Wed, 20 November 2002 10:50

GIN51E wrote on Wed, 20 November 2002 14:02

that sites pretty good, now i know how a torque converter works and thats very interesting, so if it has no fluid then the car will not move.

but it does make me start wondering how much power is actually lost in this process and how different oil grades and fin designs would affect power transfer as well.

Yea, I like it too. Smile

Yea, the fluid is pretty much a #1 issue when people say they have problems with gears engaging and stuff, the first question is about their fluid level, 99% of the time they don't have enough and just a top up or change fixes it. AFAIK, there is only one grade, 'auto transmission fluid'. Wink

Sure there would be some sort of loss, it's a hydraulic process, not a straight engine to gearbox deal. Actually, I don't think it's really a loss though, it just needs a little more power to get the output. That's why auto's are a little more thirsty.

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Sorry to change direction of the thread, but while we're on about auto boxes, does anyone who has 'ECT Power' (as well as O/D) ever turn it off? I don't think mines been off in over a year...

Yea, a couple of months ago I decided to turn mine on permanently after reading about it and doing a few road tests with it. All it does is changes the gears later than they normally would when you give it some, (revs it out further). Otherwise the gears change normally. I actually did notice a peformance difference when I floored it between ECT being off or on. It wasn't a "feeling" like a rice cat-back exhaust, it was actually noticable. So in that case, I see no harm in leaving the ECT on. Plus I have a cool green ECT PWR lit up on the dash all the time. Smile

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GIN51E- If you give it hell, that way there's no higher gear to change to (coming from someone who drives up tamborine mountain every day at 6,000 rpm)

Yep, it's all about the accelerator. Just keep it in the "power band" for the gear and it won't change. Smile

If you feel it's starting to loose power and about to change into a higher gear, put the foot down more. (Going up hills of course). But it shits me when I'm behind someone and 99% of the time they always slow down going up hills because they don't give it some extra gas to keep to the speed limit like I do.

It's either they have an auto and let it try and pull the car up in a higher gear, or they have a manual and just CBF changing gears.

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