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Originally Posted by masraum View Post
It's my understanding that Porsche invented a syncro system for transmissions, and therefore pretty much all of their stuff has been synchronized. I guess it's possible that some of the early stuff wasn't.

I had a guy try to sell me an SC once who tried to tell me that 1st wasn't synchronized. He was either a scheister or horribly misinformed.

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I've rebuilt early 901s, 914-901s, late 911-901, early 915s and late 915s. They are all basically the same sync system and 1st gear is synced on all of them.
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