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03-06-2023, 07:59 AM

twobjshelbys twobjshelbys is offline

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When I visited Gardena Carroll's own Cobra had an automatic...

The problem is mix-n-match. The old automatics weren't really able to handle high power well. Everyone seems to want authenticity so they take the 351 beefed up to 427 and put a C4 on it and it eventually fails (but so did the originals!!!)

Modern automatics are pretty good. I had two identical 2008 Shelby GT Mustangs - except one was manual, the other auto. The auto would shift at exactly the same points where I would have shifted the manual, but did it in 10ms. That's why drag racers like autos.

Of course the "paddle shifter" trans is an auto with manual overrides...

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