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Old 07-07-2011, 07:32 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Old Tele man View Post
...second, we also don't know what the actual Driveline Horsepower (HP) losses are; although the commonly used values of 10-15% for manual transmission and 15%-20% for automatics is pretty close; with FWD being slightly worse than RWD.
I don't think the driveline losses are quite that bad. But FWD is BETTER than RWD as hypoid gears- as found in rear axles- have a bigger sliding component to the gear mesh vs FWD diff gears.

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