CoupeVQ35CVT wrote:Your car as the CVT transmission. It will not survive. Unless you are planning to spend $6,000-$16,000 on a manual transmission swap on top of the $6,000 on the turbo. Oh that's if you have the donor 6MT transmission and car handy, not to mention the months of possible down time (or a year combined of troubleshooting all the little details). How do I know? A friend, and several others who've done this on their CVT transmissions have mentioned the problems. It just dies from the extra power. And the 2.5 CVT is even more worse than the 3.5's in handling more power. Bolt-ons are OK but anything boosted just kills them. Sorry to let you down like that!
so 3.5 has a better CVT?
I do believe CVT's are POS, it was a paper journal in 2006 then it came alive in 2007, wtf.
Our profs do write papers but it has to be tested and tested for 10 years before new technology comes true. In the civil engineering area.