How do you like your AUTOMATIC supra?
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I love everything about the auto in my Supra. Ease of consistency at the drag strip, brake boosting off the line, not loosing boost between shifts, and easily flipping off guys who hate on your auto as you pass them!
If I were you, I'd take the car you're looking at for a spin and see if the auto for you. It only took one drive for me to fall in love with mine!
If I were you, I'd take the car you're looking at for a spin and see if the auto for you. It only took one drive for me to fall in love with mine!
Mine never downshifts when I want it to, and won't get past 5000 RPMs
when you floor it there is a delay before actual acceleration, if it decides to downshift
I miss my 5 speed, but it could be the old, beaten auto in my car has issues.
when you floor it there is a delay before actual acceleration, if it decides to downshift
I miss my 5 speed, but it could be the old, beaten auto in my car has issues.
I liked mine when it was auto, but I now love it that its standard. But my auto was on its way out and my TC was slipping way to much. It felt way under powered as an auto. I'm guessing a perfectly running auto would be nice though.
Although an automatic shifts faster and doesn't make the turbo have to spool between shifts, the manual felt faster when accelerating in each gear(I think that some of that has to do with the greater drivetrain powerloss that the auto has). On the other hand, the manual can get annoying. I've driven both with stock power and I wish I could drive two supras; one with each tranny :biglaugh:
LilMissMkIII;1496045 said:
Maybe he means stock for stock. But I'm sure he knows that a properly built auto tranny with the right torque converter will beat a manual trans hands down.
no way in hell a auto will smoke a manual no way in hell dude
sticks always come out first even if its by 2 seconds..
iuno wat u guys drivin but my experience i never beat a stick with my auto turbo
my stick mustang came out slightly faster to.. v6 stock NA
sticks always come out first even if its by 2 seconds..
iuno wat u guys drivin but my experience i never beat a stick with my auto turbo
my stick mustang came out slightly faster to.. v6 stock NA
mtx911;1496060 said:
Ok, then it's settled guys. According to these latest facts stated above there's no way in hell an auto will smoke a manual... no way in hell guys.
So mtx, would you say an auto trans is a waste of time and money especially if you're thinking about drag racing?
No dont get me wrong dude just saying,, with stick u get the most outa every gear,
auto switches around 5000 6000 at best, stick u get the best and max out every gear,
even if u manually shifted the auto still has lag time switching,, unlike stick
which only depends on how quick the driver is a switching.. still come in few seconds
faster than auto... not much but still slightly faster.
of course if your solely relying on boost to get u thru..
then auto is the way, but for small boost and NA its stick.
auto switches around 5000 6000 at best, stick u get the best and max out every gear,
even if u manually shifted the auto still has lag time switching,, unlike stick
which only depends on how quick the driver is a switching.. still come in few seconds
faster than auto... not much but still slightly faster.
of course if your solely relying on boost to get u thru..
then auto is the way, but for small boost and NA its stick.
mtx911;1496077 said:No dont get me wrong dude just saying,, with stick u get the most outa every gear,
auto switches around 5000 6000 at best, stick u get the best and max out every gear,
even if u manually shifted the auto still has lag time switching,, unlike stick
which only depends on how quick the driver is a switching.. still come in few seconds
faster than auto... not much but still slightly faster.
of course if your solely relying on boost to get u thru..
then auto is the way, but for small boost and NA its stick.
It's what I imagine your giant brain to be after you laid those pearls of wisdom on us.....
we bow down before you ohh wise one.
we bow down before you ohh wise one.
I just bought a 90 auto (non turbo). Its a really nice car for the $1800 i paid for it, but that auto has got to go... I prefer stick and my opinion is heavily biased upon that.
mtx911;1496077 said:
I'm sorry man, but your 'butt dyno' is lying to you...
It isn't about what rpm you shift at or the time it takes to shift, it's about loosing a big percentage of your power between shifts due to loosing boost. The reason a manual trans in a turbocharged car feels faster is because you're going from vacuum/low boost to high boost after every shift, making it feel like more acceleration. In reality,you're just repeatedly getting back up to your turbo's max power output instead of just staying there and shifting through your gears as you would in an automatic.
This is why automatic transmissions are faster than manuals. The stock auto MK IV was faster that the stock manual MK IV on the strip and it did this with less psi. If 'more speed with less boost' doesn't convince you, then nothing will.