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More gears... especially more gearboxes = more drivetrain losses, right?
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a little but you'd have more gear for less weight... the whole idea is based on the thought more gears is a good thing.
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In fact that gives me an ideer: pull 2nd and 4th gearsets outta my tranny. Hardly use em anyway.
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i tend to skip gears all the time but at the end of the day i think i've used most of them... but if you can live without them and thing that'll contribute to a better milage... i'm interested to see the outcome.
that's pretty much what i had in mind appart from mechanical difficulties wich apparently seem to have been mastered, most of the other "downsides" listed seem to come from people's expectation of the device to replicate the negatives of the transmission it could replace. personally the lack of moise and jerkyness hardly seems a bad thing.
as for that dodge revving so high... i'm not sure how the system was set up but there's no eason why cars should revv any higher as they do today of the ratios can be vried enough, and in theory they can by useing multiple belts chould one belts ratio variation be to small.