For a streeter, the Second-gear shift comes too early.,
To me it's just eating up my gears and increasing my cruise rpm at the other end. The factory 340s had 2.66x3.55=9.44 which was enough starter to lay rubber all thru that gear.
The only reason, IMO, to run higher than 10, is if you want to drive real slow, but your engine won't idle real slow.
My engine will idle down to 550 in road gear of 10.97 (3.09 x 3.55), which gets me down to 4.0 mph; a brisk walking speed.. At 500 it gets to 3.66mph.
If you spend your gearage on 4.56s, then sure, you get 2.66x4.56=12.13, but then you live with the hiway buzzzzzzzzzzzz @65=3700. which even with a GVod is still 2900.
In town when tooling around, I like to shift at 2800. My engine sounds real good there, and she can easily handle the rpm drops. With my gears, the speeds related to this are; 20/33/45/63
If I had 4.56s (12.13 starter) the speeds would be;.......... 16/26/35/49
Look at the numbers. My Second gear is your Third. My Third gear is your Fourth.
In this configuration; my gears give up 4mph to 4.56s at the bottom, to gain 14 at the top.
Since my engine can smoke thru First gear starting at any speed, I do not see the point of running more starter than the 11/1 currently in it.
I tried 4.88, 4.30s, 4.10s, 3.91s, 5.13s even, and with the various boxes that have First gears of 3.09 and 2.66, and 2.47.. This was to get the Second gear I wanted together with a trap-gear that I wanted., trying to make my car BOTH a streeter and a good-traping quartermiler. Which I found out, that with my engine, was just about impossible to hit both marks. So I concentrated on making it a good streeter.
Please notice, I prefaced post#18 thus;
I am NOT trying to bust yur balls, not at all;
and only stated MY preferences, as it applies to a streeter.
Now, I can tell you one more thing;
I ran the A833od with the GVod being used as a Splitter, with 4.30s. The Road gears were;
13.29-10.36-7.18-5.60-4.30-3.35-2.38 hyup 7 ratios.
Notice the 10.36 and the 7.18. I was trying to use the 10.36 as my starter. The 7.18 was a good Second Gear,
The 13.29 was supposed to be my dragstrip starter. But the GVod would not hold 10.36 in gear for a full stop-light, so then it would slip on take off; not much, but for the cost of the unit, I wasn't gonna take any chances. I came to hate that 13.29 as a daily-Driver, so out the whole shebang came.
I now use the Commando, and still occasionally Split gears. The new Roadgears, GV in red, are;
10.97-8.56-6.82-5.32/4.97-3.88-3.55-2.77 the splits are;
----.78---.80---.78---.93---.78---.91---.78
While this shows up as 8 gears mathematically, two of the GV splits are too close to be usable , one behind the other. That makes it a sortof Six speed.
I use the First four ratios in The Eighth Mile to trap 93@6160 on the New cam that peaks around 5300. From 5.32 to 2.77 is .52
As a DD,I usually shift into od after Third and then jump to Fourth-over, like this
10.97-6.82-4.97-3.88-2.77 ; From 3.88 to 2.77 is .71
But sometimes I stretch out Second, then split, and then jump to Fourth-over like this
10.97-6.82-5.32-2.77 ; From 5.32 to 2.77 is .52
But if Ima showing off, then
10.97-8.56-6.82-2.77, cuz 6500 in 6.82 is already over 75mph. From 6.82 to 2.77 is .41
I love this combo.
