Re:Selespeed

[Olli Jermo <ollie@domain.elided>]

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> Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2000 13:42:57 +0200
> From: alp berker <aberker@domain.elided>
> Subject: selespeed
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> I've one comment about the Selespeed, I tested the car before buying my 155Q4 (it was the selespeed or the Q4) and with my racing background I felt that the selespeed is in fact a fancy automatic. While downshifting it waits for  some time and does not respond like racing sequential gearbox . If you are going to use it during normal driving it is great, but competitive driving is not suitable for this gearbox. However an Alfa is simply a competitive everday
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> Happy new year to all Alfisti,
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> Alp Berker
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> 69 GT Junior
> 96 155Q4
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>  Of course Selespeed is a (fancy) automatic.  To me the difference is that behind the Selespeed there is in fact a conventional gearbox.  I was never a big fan of the torque converter found in regular automatic boxes.

I don't feel the Selespeed 'waits for a while' before downshifting (although it does).  You get used to the reaction time when using it and it certainly does not disturb me,  even with my racing background (RR sidecars with 'true' mechanical sequential gearbox.  My Selespeed is for everyday transportation and not 'competitive driving',  whatever that might be in traffic...

I understand the Selespeed software (controlling the shifting) can be updated,  just as any computer software.  The big goof in the system was making the stick work backwards and making it so it cannot be easily switched:  we tried and lost the reverse!

Olli Jermo
Tampere, Finland

1999 156 Selespeed
1972 2000 GTV
1:10  GTA (Tamiya)

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