{"id":264,"date":"2020-04-18T22:35:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T05:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/?p=264"},"modified":"2020-04-18T22:39:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T05:39:07","slug":"overdrive-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/2020\/04\/18\/overdrive-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"OVERDRIVE OVERVIEW"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The next time you remove the transmission tunnel cover of your big Healey &#8211; or perhaps the first time if you&#8217;ve never done that before &#8211; be sure to check the brass data plate on top of your overdrive.\u00a0 It looks like this:<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-265\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_4018e2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_4018e2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_4018e2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_4018e2-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_4018e2.jpg 1350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>The potentially interesting thing about it is the &#8220;percent overdrive&#8221; the unit is.\u00a0 This one, from a BN2, is a standard 28 percent overdrive.\u00a0 The way to tell that is by the first two digits of the serial number:<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-266\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_4018e3-300x96.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_4018e3-300x96.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_4018e3-1024x329.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_4018e3-768x247.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_4018e3.jpg 1087w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>The print is small and if you&#8217;re like me you may find it easier to take a phone-camera picture of it, such as this one, and then enlarge that image.\u00a0 Note the serial number begins with 28\/, so it&#8217;s a standard 28 percent overdrive.<\/h2>\n<h2>Maybe your Healey has a rare, non-standard unit and you don&#8217;t even know it.\u00a0 Now you can easily find out.<\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next time you remove the transmission tunnel cover of your big Healey &#8211; or perhaps the first time if you&#8217;ve never done that before &#8211; be sure to check the brass data plate on top of your overdrive.\u00a0 It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/2020\/04\/18\/overdrive-overview\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}