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Originally Posted by The Former PFR
The force on the gear faces increases with torque. There are three losses that I can think of, two of which remain constant. You have the friction between gear faces and bearing losses (probably the biggest factor), the windage losses, and the inertial losses. So basically one changes and the other two stay the same. It would be interesting to see what those percentages are.
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Agreed. This is why some of the old tricks is to run different type of lubricants or synthetics in the drivetrain. Straight cut gears, Micro Polishing the gears etc.
All of it helps in my opinion. Auto will pull a greater % than a manual transmission.