mistake in gears on scirocco.org site?

[brett at ataxxia.com (Brett Van Sprewenburg)]

I have updated the chart on scirocco.org to reflect this change.   
Ron, can you send me the new file to put on that page?

==Brett


On Jan 21, 2007, at 8:45 AM, Ron Pieper wrote:

> OK -
>
> First, the Gears page on scirocco.org was not done by me - but  
> towards the bottom of the page,
> there is a link to my spreadsheet.
>
> Both my spreadsheet and the chart on the Gears page show an ACH  
> with a 0.89 5th gear.  I have
> found that my spreadsheet is wrong.  ETKA somewhere else might show  
> an ACH with a different ratio,
> and I recall that that's happened before.  I don't know of any tie- 
> in between my sheet and the
> chart on the gears page...odd that they'd have the same error...I  
> will change my sheet.
>
> In ETKA, visit an 85 US built Golf, MG3, SG11, Illustration 311.0.   
> Z=38/51, or 0.745.
>
> Fast Fruit shows it with a 0.75.  So do other sites including Roger  
> Brown's chart on his Diesel
> Caddy site (http://www.4crawler.com/Diesel/ 
> VW_020_transmission.shtml). According to Jonathan, so
> does the Bentley but I haven't checked it.
>
> Believe that it's a 0.75.  It makes more sense than a 0.89 when  
> looking at the other ratios, too.
>
> Ron
>
> --- shisler <shislerocco@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> i have a for sale thread up for an ACH gear box and someone told  
>> me that i
>> have the fifth gear wrong for it. i took it from the scirocco.org  
>> site. he
>> said he got the ratio from the bently and it is .745. can anyone  
>> verify this
>> or want to change it?
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