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Old 05-03-2012, 12:46 PM
rs899 rs899 is offline
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I had an example like yours. With the natural aspired engine they threw it together with another standard transmiision. I did not like the internal gear ratios.
Agreed. I forgot to mention that I changed my transmission for an '85 (code ACN) that has much better ratios. The one the '91 shipped with (AWY) was crap, unless you want to drag race ( and lose anyway)

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Also they slapped on so many plastic add on body stuff I figured they had purchased the reliable toy company by then. For a company that knew what they were doing something was going very wrong during that period in my opinion.
Also agreed. I hate all that meaningless plastic. I cant even get under the front end to change the oil ( and I am not that fat for an American) I have almost a full '86 parts car and sometime may swap to the small bumpers etc. I suppose they felt they had to do something to freshen the 5 year old look, but didn't have the coin to retool. So they just did some "plastic surgery". Wankers.
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