it would be ok but still 3.55 would be better. 3.27 would be more of a turbo friendly gear
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it would be ok but still 3.55 would be better. 3.27 would be more of a turbo friendly gear
uuuh..belay my last..
I think a lot of the folks here like the 3.55's. Seems to be the happy medium between weekend/stoplight warrior and highway cruiser. My buddy ISLANDLX runs 3.55's on a Novi 1K (but automatic) and it's a wonderful cruiser that still creates fear.
I'm running 3.73's now on a T-5 manual with 275/40/17's (and thank god I didn't go 4.11's) and
it rocks around town with an F-150 crank pulley and 2.75 blower pulley. Where I live the fastest legal roads are 45, and "occasional sustained sprints in excess of 2 times the classified legal speed limit here (heh heh)" reveal a "winded screaming motor." The girlfriend loves it (but she's a freak anyway :eek: ), but I'm not sure how driving it for several hundred miles would be.
Originally I set my blower car up and ran it on 2.73's for almost a year so anything had to be an improvement. Unless you set them up yourself ( which I did, because nobody here would do them- so I taught myself and saved some money) , I don't know if going from 3.27's to 3.55's would really make you happier (it's not even a 10 percent change). Try living with the setup and running it under various conditions before you decide. I'f I originally had 3.27's and with the F-150/2.75 pulley setup ('cos boost comes in really fast now), I probably wouldn't have changed.
is that her in your avitar cuz man, she is hella good :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Hella Good
I have 3.73 gears. All things considered, I'm wishing I had 3.27. Why? I don't street race anymore, all but gave up drag racing and gas is getting hella-expensive. It's mostly weekend cruiser and show car now a days. Sad but true. It's fun but the gears were the second thing I changed on the car(mufflers were first.) OK, actually pulling the air silencer out was first but I don't count that. ;) I needed the gears back then, I don't now.
..God bless ya Rydeon.. That's "Karma," (Iona Chester). The girl rocked. She was, and still is, hella good. She went back home to Georgia a year ago and is now driving Handi-van's for the city of Atlanta. The new girlfriend, well, apparently when she got named her parents had a love for Chevrolets :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by RydeOn
..I been meaning to get a new avatar up since Doug stole mine and I've been using my favorite Iona photo since. I love my car, but fact is this: Iona is better.