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Kirby

I have to agree with you. I'm doubtful about the S2 release for the autostick mainly because of the tranny limitations. 3bar told us what the limits were. S2 will put us dangerously close to that. There are problems with the tranny holding up peroid. (if anyone wants to know, just search the PT sites) I was all fired up for S2 and beyond. I really wanted to get into the PT and go wild. I have more than $500.00 of parts (about 60HP) sitting in boxes, due to the fact that if I installed them, I would exceed the limitations of the tranny. DCX has refused to fix this tranny enmassed. Instead it is taken care of under warranty. The next gen PT will probably use one of the Mercedes transmissons. But that will be too late for me, I will either be driving a STI or EVO MR8. Either way I won't be purchasing a DCX product.

I've found out that the PT can produce gobs of power just by doing simple things such as, adding the Hyperground wires, Ignition wires etc. Right now, I'm sitting at 266 ftlbs of torque with my current setup which includes the Sun Hyperground wires. S2 would probably put me over the limits and I haven't even tweaked the exhaust, added an up-pipe or fine tuned the car. My point is, why should I continue to spend money on this car with its inherent limitations? Did I mention the rapidly plunging resale value of the PT? The only that I can be happy about was that I learned a lot by doing my own work and then dynoing my PT. I have a good idea as to what my car is doing at the various RPM ranges. One thing for sure if a PT autostick is running 13's, it won't do them long without rebuilding the tranny.

See you around Kirby, it's been fun!

m~