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Old 03-10-2014, 07:47 PM   #17 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Mista Bone View Post
"D" tranny guru.
He's not exaggerating about that, either. He is very well-known and well-respected in the Civic (and Civic-derivatives) worlds for his knowledge of the D-series transmissions.

He and I have had discussions in the past about gearing and fuel economy multiple times. I still disagree with his assertion that 3000 RPM is more efficient than 2000 RPM. If you dig deeper, you can see that his testing was not A-B-A testing--though that is pretty difficult to set up when talking about transmission swaps...

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