Why 3.91/4.10 Gears make the best short term expressway gears!

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abodyjoe said:
HA!

not sure how accurate it is. but i can say that was on the way to carlisle and it was a 5000 rpm shot with 2.94 gears and a 28" tire... :)

car is stable as hell in the triple digit speeds. feels like your doing 55 mph..
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Bill's suspension must work very well.....
 
abodyjoe said:
HA!

not sure how accurate it is. but i can say that was on the way to carlisle and it was a 5000 rpm shot with 2.94 gears and a 28" tire... :)

car is stable as hell in the triple digit speeds. feels like your doing 55 mph..
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AlterK under it??
 
Just a quick calculation from the data on Garmin and your tach.

Projected RPM at 156 mph would be 5736.

rpm? 2500 rpm
______ X _______

156 mph 68 mph

Who cares how accurate Garmin is...anyway you look at it a 5000 rpm blast with 2.94 gears and 28" tires is hauling ***!!!! I was a fun picture to say the least.

Great suspension engineering from Bill R.
 
I am sure he meant in the 5000 RPM Range.....................who in there right mind would look at the stinking tack going that fast anyway a quick glance and that is all of that!! haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
 
Like others have said overdrive is just an extra gear. You can keep short rear gears and do all the same things you mentioned in your OP but when you aren't running balls-out you can shift one more time and have the RPMs drop to a nice mellow level. It's not like you HAVE to drive in top gear all the time, or the overdrive somehow affects your other gear ratios... Try driving a good high-performance car with overdrive (better yet a Mopar musclecar) and you'll quickly figure out why everybody wants one. My friend's 360-powered '73 B200 has 4.10s and it is fun around town but it gets old kinda soon on highway trips longer than 5 minutes...
 
With a 4 speed and 3:91's/ 4:10's, now we're talkin.
Feel, control, and neck snapping performance, you've got it all there.
And you can boil the hides off at will.
And a lotta smiles per gallon.
That's what it's all about!
Unless you are driving over 200 miles, then it gets old fast.
Tom.
 
Having four gears for the track and a fifth one for the highway gives you the best of both worlds. Hopefully those new five speeds will come out soon.
 
Has anybody heard anything more about the McLeod or Passon 5 speed?
 
Dartnut said:
With a 4 speed and 3:91's/ 4:10's, now we're talkin.
Feel, control, and neck snapping performance, you've got it all there.
And you can boil the hides off at will.
And a lotta smiles per gallon.
That's what it's all about!
Unless you are driving over 200 miles, then it gets old fast.
Tom.
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Yep, I was driving my old beater--92 olds with a tall 3rd gear--on the freeway around 75mph--it feels fast in that junk car, lol A large flock of black birds came around and one birdie sat down on the pavement, my foot went off the gas but car didn't slow down enough and the car hit the birdie as it was flying off.

No biggie--that time but it would had been avoided if the car would had started slowing down as soon as the gas was let off.
 
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