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Originally Posted by J P Stein View Post
As I understand it, Porsche finally gave up on its own method of shifting gears and went to the BorgWarner syncro set up.......I think that was when they came out with the G-50 trans.......a much better arrangement.
I don't know when they changed, but the compressed ring system used on my 519s are very slow. From 1 to 2 you need to shift fast and hard and not worry about the noise. The 741s were a little better. I understand the 901 was a 741 with more gears.
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