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The AAPEX (Automotive Aftermarket Products Expo) and SEMA Shows are the top automotive specialty products trade events in the world!
Representing the $395 billion global motor vehicle aftermarket, more than 130,000 professionals from around the globe participate in AAPEX.
Each year, AAPEX draws the industry’s brightest minds and hottest products to one place, Las Vegas.
The CHA Team looks forward to meeting you at AAPEX, Booth #531 – Sands Expo and Convention Center, Nov 1-3, 2016. We invite you to come see and learn about the latest Transmission & Differential products we will have on display!
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CHA was proud to showcase our newest and most innovative Transmission and Differential products at the 2015 PRI Show in Indianapolis.
Having been held this year on December 10-12, the Performance Racing Industry Show showcased exciting product ideas geared for the Motorsports market.
CHA’s ability to provide in-house REM Surface Finishing to our line of quality, in-stock Transmission and Differential products brought much interest to attendees, which this year numbered in excess of 55,000.
We invite you to call your Personal CHA Account Representative to learn more about the benefits of REM Surface Finishing.
Also showcased at the CHA booth was our new and in-stock Front & Rear Transfer Case Halves!
The PRI Show featured plenty of the hottest performance cars you’ll see anywhere!
The SEMA Show is the premier automotive specialty products trade event in the world. It draws the industry’s brightest minds and hottest products to one place, the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Always looking for exciting new product ideas to bring to our customers, CHA visited the SEMA Show earlier this November.
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Using clear graphics and easy to understand explanations, this video clarifies the basics on how a typical manual transmission works. Enjoy!
This is a great video from www.learnengineering.org
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This quick introduction into the world of Manual Transmission Gearboxes is from “Geeks On Cars”.
Manual Transmission Gearbox 
Manual-transmission gearboxes are the simplest types of gearboxes and involve the manual movement of a sliding gear along the gearbox’s main shaft using a shifter. The shifter is attached to a gear lever, which moves the sliding gear. When the driver engages the clutch, the sliding gear disengages from its existing position and can slide up and down the gearbox to re-engage in a higher or lower gear. Manual-transmission gearboxes contain a diagonal gear that sits beside the main gears and ensures that the sliding gear is synchronized with main gears. This synchronization allows the sliding gear to seamlessly engage with the main gears and prevents the gears from clashing with one another, which can damage the transmission. Modern gearboxes contain two sliding gears, one of which engages exclusively with the reverse main gear. This second sliding gear is constantly synchronized with the reverse main gear and allows the operator to seamlessly shift from forward to reverse.
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The Performance Racing Industry Trade Show showcases the latest in racing technology, ideas and new business opportunities.
CHA is proud to be back and exhibiting our newest products at the 28th annual PRI Show in Indianapolis, IN – Dec 10th-12th, 2015.
We look forward to seeing you at our Booth #3425!
We really enjoyed this article by Carroll Lachnit, Features Editor for Edmunds. Hope you also find this informative!
The stick shift hasn’t yet gone the way of the passenger pigeon and the dodo, but it’s definitely an endangered species. As of August 2013, just 3.9 percent of new cars sold for the year had manual transmissions.
Cars with stick shifts and clutches have their ardent defenders, but some of the reasons they cite for their superiority and desirability aren’t supported by facts. Here are five myths about stick shifts:
1. Cars with manual transmissions always get better fuel economy than cars with automatics.
In the past it was pretty much a given that vehicles with manual transmissions would be more fuel-efficient than their automatic counterparts. But as automatics become more advanced and gain additional gears, they are often now overtaking manuals in terms of fuel economy.
For an example of when the myth is based in reality, there’s the fuel-sipping 2014 Chevrolet Cruze Eco. The manual version of this small Chevy gets 33 mpg combined (28 mpg in the city/42 mpg on the highway). Equipped with an automatic transmission, the Eco is slightly less fuel-efficient: 31 mpg combined (26 city/39 highway). The manual will cost you about $100 less per year in fuel, according to fueleconomy.gov.
With the 2014 Ford Focus, it’s the six-speed automatic version that performs better, getting 31 mpg combined (27 city/37 highway). (If you spring for the Super Fuel Economy option package, which also uses the six-speed automatic transmission, fuel economy rises to 33 mpg combined [28 city/40 highway].) A FordFocus with a conventional manual transmission can’t match the automatics. It gets 30 mpg combined (26 city/36 highway).
2. A car with a manual transmission costs less than the same model with an automatic.
In most cases, the manual version of a car will indeed cost less, but in some instances, it’s the same price as an automatic. Examples include such GM vehicles as the 2013 Buick Regal GS and 2013 Cadillac CTS-V. Among BMWs, the manual is often the same price as the automatic. Further, you can’t always get the car you want with a manual transmission: 67 percent of 2013 model-year cars came only as automatics.
3. The coolest sports cars only come with manual transmissions.
This depends on your definition of “cool sports car.” The seventh-generation 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray and many flavors of the 2014 Porsche 911 offer a choice of a manual or automatic transmission. But if your choice is the 2014 Porsche 911 GT3, which Edmunds editors call “the baddest Porsche on the block,” you can only get an automated manual transmission. The same goes for the 2014 Jaguar F-Type the 2013 Maserati GranTurismo,2013 Lamborghini Aventador and the 2013 Ferrari F12 Berlinetta. No manual gear shifting ballet for you.
It’s no loss, says Ken Hill, a professional racer, driving educator and vice president of operations for Automotive Adventures in Bellevue, Washington. “Some people are stuck on the mindset that a driver is faster with a manual box,” Hill says. But there’s a reason why some major performance-car manufacturers, including Ferrari and Jaguar, no longer offer traditional manual transmissions, he says. “They just aren’t as good.”
4. If your dream car comes with a standard manual transmission, you can always get an automatic as an option.
Like the previous assumption, this one isn’t true either. A small group of cars (mostly sporty models) only come with manuals. The list includes the Audi TT RS, Fiat 500 Abarth, 2014 Ford Focus ST, 2014 Ford Shelby GT500,Mazdaspeed 3 and Volkswagen Golf R.
5. Teenagers really, really want to learn to drive stick shifts.
Not so, says Hill, who teaches teen driving programs. Because there are so few manuals out there, young people don’t get exposed to them, and so they have little interest in learning how to drive them, he says.
The Theft-Deterrent Theory: Myth or Reality?
There’s one argument in favor of stick-shift cars that doesn’t have a ready true-or-false answer. The theory is that because fewer people know how to drive stick shifts these days, cars equipped with them are less likely to be stolen.
Frank Scafidi, director of public affairs for the National Insurance Crime Bureau, which tracks car theft trends, says he’s not aware of any data to support or refute that idea.
“Some thieves might be thwarted in their attempt to steal a car with a manual transmission, since many thieves possess varying levels of intellect,” Scafidi says. “That very personal element is also a factor in the degree of expertise necessary to overcome some of the more sophisticated security systems.
Stick Shift Realities
When the argument in favor of the stick shift is based on how much fun it is, it’s undeniable. Stick-shift savvyalso comes in handy if you’re a passenger in a manual-transmission car and the driver is incapacitated in some way. And it’s helpful if you’re stuck somewhere and the only car available is one with a stick.
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