Coming down the freeway at about 140km/h (~85 mph) and went to drop it into fourth from sixth to take a big sweeping off ramp and dropped it into second...
Second is good for 110km/h (~70mph) to up shift but that could have been disastrous at that speed down...
Fortunately I felt it before I even saw or heard it and with judicious braking and a bit of feathering of the clutch I kept the RPM down into sane territory and the compression braking to a couple of chirps and twitches from the rear end.
Damn that was close.
Absinthe makes the tart grow fonder
Sounds like fun ...
Ha. The 535 has a ZF box, right? The Getrag is too notchy and clunky to go into 2nd by mistake I think... sorta a 'silver lining' effect.
2003 M3CicM6 TiAg
2002 540iT Sport Vortech S/C 6MT LSD TiAg
2008 Audi A3 2.0T DSG (the daily beater)
2014 BMW X1 xDrive28i (wifemobile)
Former:
1985 MB Euro graymarket 300SL
1995.5 Audi S6 Avant (utility/winter billetturbobattlewagen)
That coulda left two skid marks.......
I was under the impression the 535i had the ZF 5 speed gearbox and Terraphantm once confirmed it, but OP mentions 6th gear so it probably has the Getrag box.
I believe he took out the slush box and installed a manual....so it could be getrag. Most luxury cars here got the auto trans. Must have been an excess of them in Europe so they sent them around to the other side of the world...out of harms way!
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"Jah Heinrich, ve haff to send ze cars to Australia. Vat transmission ve send zem?"
"OK Helmut I tink they are like ze Americans - zey like zer big schtoopit domestik V8 cars und ze 'utes', so - same as schtoopit Americans - I zink ve zend zem ze autoslushboxgetriebens. "
2003 M3CicM6 TiAg
2002 540iT Sport Vortech S/C 6MT LSD TiAg
2008 Audi A3 2.0T DSG (the daily beater)
2014 BMW X1 xDrive28i (wifemobile)
Former:
1985 MB Euro graymarket 300SL
1995.5 Audi S6 Avant (utility/winter billetturbobattlewagen)
To be fair, Australians do love their V8 burnouts. And burnouts are a lot easier with a slushbox.
1995 525i 5-speed - Thread
I did the manual conversion a couple of years ago.
It is a 6 speed getrag.
Many more smiles per hour
Last edited by StRaNgEdAyS; 10-24-2017 at 03:45 AM.
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