Gearing ?

I believe, and will be testing it out this year.......You can make a quicker ET (1/8) with running your engs top rpm in 2 gear then a lower gear ratio that require 3 gear but no where near you top rpm.
I'm mainly doing it so that i don't over revving my eng on a 1/4 mile tracks. But i do most of my racing on 1/8...so we will see.(Loosing my 4.56 for some 3.91s)

This is basicly what 273(op) is trying to do.(I'm Just coming at it from the opposite direction)
You should run it as it sit right now and then start the experiment. You real don't know what its going to run....until you run it. I guarantee your 276 rear end car will be much faster then my 18 sec 2.76 geared car:p