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Owen_Dyneto wrote:
I don't know that I'd use the word "negligible" for the difference in power. I've driven both a 54 Cavalier (327 - 185 hp) and 54 Patrician (359-212 hp), the later rather extensively and though the difference isn't dramatic, it surely is noticeable. Both were non-gear start Ultramatic.
But was the difference worth the price and effort? Cheaper, easier, and way more effective would be a tranny swap from an ultramatic to, say, a 200r4 or 700r4. It would be a whole new animal AND better on the highway. And i'm admitting that as a guy who loves his ultramatic enough to repair everything in it rather than swap it.
We gotta see the forest for the trees, and step back and realize there's more than one way to skin a cat. If the performance we want can't be had without ridiculous price and effort one way, maybe we can get it back by improving things in a different way.
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