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Re: Crab drive question

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Originally Posted by mechanicalbrain
I mean like on a car. i believe its because of the toque slipage something or another. Basically its the reason you can have RPM stay the same even though your car increases in speed. im not real familiar with the mechanics of cars but ive been going into depth with a cars drive train and its really nice!
That's for car's with a CVT drive -- the transmission control module tells the transmission to slowly increase the gearing inside the peak of the car engine's torque curve, so the car appears to accelerate even without varying RPM's.
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