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Old Nov 29, 2014 | 08:30 PM
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Checkin to see anyone knows what the ratio is of C4s that have sticks verses automatics, or about how many C4s had sticks

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You mean read end gear ratios? I can tell you in '87 the auto got a Dana 36 with 2.59:1 standard, a 3.07:1 was optional. The manual got a stronger Dana 44 with 3.07 as standard.
Not sure if that was the story for the entire C4 run.
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Old Nov 29, 2014 | 10:52 PM
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Roughly 75-80% automatic / 20-25% manual.
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Old Nov 29, 2014 | 11:26 PM
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Originally Posted by jv9999
You mean read end gear ratios? I can tell you in '87 the auto got a Dana 36 with 2.59:1 standard, a 3.07:1 was optional. The manual got a stronger Dana 44 with 3.07 as standard.
Not sure if that was the story for the entire C4 run.
roughly how many of each were made
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Old Nov 30, 2014 | 02:13 AM
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Don't know official numbers, but I'm pretty sure only 10-20% are manual.
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Old Nov 30, 2014 | 02:19 AM
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1989
Automatic 22299
Manual 4113
From the app
Corvette DNA

It gives a list by options and year
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Old Nov 30, 2014 | 03:19 AM
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it's fairly easy to calculate the percentages of manual transmissions vs total production for the C4 production run. using the "corvette black book," the total C4 production run was 358180 units, and of those 77395 were either 4+3 or 6-speed manuals. that comes to 21.61% of C4 production were equipped with manual transmissions. this is assuming that the production figures in the black book are correct, and I'm awake enough for a little old school math -

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Originally Posted by tlxxtl
1989
Automatic 22299
Manual 4113
From the app
Corvette DNA

It gives a list by options and year
Wow!! Based on that list only 0.25% of the C4's made were 1995 Polo Green Metallic manual. Even smaller percentage of those have over 150k on the odometer. So, my car is really rare and should be worth at least Eleventy billion bucks.
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