Manual Transmissions

[Ctbill]

Do they still put corroborators in cars? I thought it was all fuel injected now?

Best I can gather, the last carburetor cars in the US were 1989-1991 time frame...

Plenty of motorcycles still use them, but they too are a smaller and smaller percentage (in the US). Worldwide, I believe a carb’d motorcycle is actually the most prevalent!

 

[mso489]

I'm reviving this thread just to make a boast, and I make no promises for later today or tomorrow. However, in 56 years of driving manual shifters, I have never had to replace a clutch. I've had vehicular mishaps, but never that. To date, I've treated my clutches like good friends.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

I'm reviving this thread just to make a boast, and I make no promises for later today or tomorrow. However, in 56 years of driving manual shifters, I have never had to replace a clutch. I've had vehicular mishaps, but never that. To date, I've treated my clutches like good friends.

Its all about how you treat them.

For georges sake: for best results smoke a dunhill with a VA blend, while driving a manual.

 

[jhowell]

Here's my 100 hp 4-speed wonder, a winter long project. It had the stock, tired, low-compression late 70's era pistons and a single Weber carb. The winter project included a set of 60's era high-compression pistons 9:1, mild head work, valves, etc. and a proper set of twin SU carbs. I just finished tuning it this evening. Still an old man's sports car, but a bit more lively and more fun to drive.

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Love the sound of diaphragm carbs at low idle... Had a single on a Harley knuckle...

 

[jeff540]

Hahaha..... corroborators

My last "antique" Corvette was a 1972 with a 406 small block and Crane solid lifter cam. It had a tricked out quadra-jet, loved the secondary kick in the ass.

Photos, or it never happened (in a former life)

 

[jeff540]

And driving it into the mall, the scent of leaded gasoline fumes in an enclosed space was truely something else

 

[jeff540]

Sold to a fellow in California in 2003. 73,000 original miles.

 

[Old School 3319]

I still drive an 84f f250 has a 4 speed granny low. Drove big rigs for many years back before auto was an option learned to float gears and never touch the clutch except to stop