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stevenm357
02-10-2009, 05:14 PM
Ok, so I have been thinking about getting gears lately I have a M6 3:42's? and a friend has an A4 with 3:23's? I think anyway. that's not as important to me as this.

1 how would going to 3:73's or 4:10's or any of the combinations in between effect my shift points. right now i can JUST get to 60 in second gear ( that's abotu the shift point for me normally) I can't remember first. because it happens pretty quick. :) and it's been 3 months since i've driven the car hard ( or much at all)

so how will the gears effect shift points,

would it be better to change things in the Tranny since i have to redo the synchro's anyway,

and how would top speed be effected?

car is a street car first drag car rarely and some sporatic auto crossing and i'm planning a heads/cam upgrade this spring.

sunsetorangess
02-15-2009, 09:20 AM
This should help ya out a bit.
http://www.f-body.org/gears/
J

stevenm357
02-15-2009, 01:10 PM
hummm thanks for the link now i just have to figure out what the stock gear ratios are..

sunsetorangess
02-15-2009, 04:14 PM
Lol take a look at your RPO Codes.
GU2= 2.73
GU4= 3.08
GU5= 3.23
GU6= 3.42
Hope this helps
J

stevenm357
02-15-2009, 04:30 PM
thansk for the break down i'm a 3:42 I was talking about the tranny gears to run in the gear calculator

sunsetorangess
02-15-2009, 04:42 PM
On the top where it says to "make a selection", click on the drop down and select 98 f body m6. Same same Then click calculate.
J

stevenm357
02-15-2009, 05:27 PM
SWEET thanks.

Hi-Po
02-15-2009, 06:03 PM
Why does that site warn me about harmful "Malware" being installed on my computer? Never seen that yet.

stevenm357
02-15-2009, 09:42 PM
the site was hacked at some point. it's been fixed but mozilla still has it on the "shit" list use Internet Explorer instead of firefox.