I have a 1.0 with CVT; I'm confident it would set one of the slowest recorded times, especially as it completely runs out of steam at 75mph.Stuart said:Very inspirational! i miss all the santa pod meets! i only live bout 45 mins away aswell
would be interesting to take a CVT up the strip
Nyah hah, absence of aerodynamic refinement no problem then :grinning:Ed said:
) would fare against a manual one with the same engine size.The problem with the CVT is that when u floor it, it just goes up to the redline where there's no torque; if u do that and then gradually release the pedal it actually accelerates harder as the revs drop down into the peak torque-peak power band. 'Cos of that, it's impossible to extract the maximum performance from the engine 'cos u can't have it at full throttle and peak torque. I figured the most effective thing to do is to reprogram the CVT so that it won't let the engine rev past the peak torque (or power, there's 2 selectable modes so u could program one into each of them and take ur pick) until it reaches the tallest ratio, at which point it has to allow the engine speed to increase. Pity I don't know a thing about ROM programming and I can't afford to break a car that's technically my dad's.Ed said:
