Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site mhuxl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!mhuxv!mhuxh!mhuxi!mhuxl!daw1 From: daw1@mhuxl.UUCP (WILLIAMS) Newsgroups: net.auto.tech Subject: Re: Continuous Transmission Message-ID: <293@mhuxl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 18:42:03 EST Article-I.D.: mhuxl.293 Posted: Tue Nov 5 18:42:03 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Nov-85 04:19:13 EST References: <10878@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 33 > > As it was described to me, it is basically a pair of > controllable variable diameter wheels linked by a belt; which > enables the driver to choose among any of the infinitely many > transmission ratio possible. > They used to have these on minibikes about 12 years ago. You couldn't select for yourself the ratio as it was a function of the engine/vehicle speed/throttle opening. Two centrifugally(sp?) operated v-groove pulleys narrowed and widened to change the overall drive ratio (when one pulley widened the other narrowed). My minibike didn't have one and another kid's did. He always blew me away since he always had the "perfect" gear for the occasion. To handle the output of a car I'm sure that the system is quite different, but the result is the same: a perfect ratio for all occasions! As far as revenge on the hotshoe with the belt drive, I decided more top-end speed would help out. So I disabled the governor on the ol' 3-h.p. Tecumseh. Really helped out the top-end speed; the bottom-end of the engine came out the large hole in the side of the block, however! A couple of years later who do I see? Hotshoe in a 383 Road Runner! Well I figured... 1 Stick-shifts forever, 1 1 1 2 1 Doug Williams 1 3 3 1 AT&T Bell Labs 1 4 6 4 1 Reading, PA 1 5 10 10 5 1 mhuxl!daw1 1 6 15 20 15 6 1