RM> The big surprise was the fuel economy almost doubled, as long as I
RM> was driving calmly at normal speeds.   B)

ZI>Maybe it's a good thing for fuel economy, too, to have some margins,
  >not having to push things to the limit... =)

When you have a car like that you learn not to push it too often.
I was going through transmissions and differentials faster than
I was tires. You try to buy racing parts that will stand up but
some things like those are prohibitively expensive.
Cheaper to replace the stock part 4 times..

Ha.. I remember when the guys that replaced my tranny once took
the blown one in to see if they could trade it in and save some
money on the new one. The guy in the shop noticed a crack around
one end of it and he wiggled it a bit and it popped off. He looked
inside it and then upended it over a trash can and poured out the
insides of it. He laughed and said, this thing isn't worth anything
as a trade in but I'd like to see the engine that could do that
to a transmission..

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