TC's and manual trans (was: Re: Smooth strategy)

[Clive Apps Techno-Logicals 416 510 0020]

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> > Don't recall whatinell they called it, but for a while Porsche used a
> > fluid
> > coupling AND a vacuum operated clutch (which was triggered by a
> > microswitch
> > on the manual shift lever) in front of a manual tranny in the 911's. The
> > fluid coupling ran in engine oil, IIRC. (A fluid coupling does not
> > multiply
> > torque, has only two elements, called pump and turbine.)


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