well, the transmission itself would probably cause more less in itself, over the differenve between the 2 gears, but i'd say, like i have before, CVT all the way, but we havn't gotten that far advanced on them to handle power and stuff like that, but i don't think it'd be practical, and like you said, that momentary loss in power would put the car on its face and then pick it up, and on the track i don't know how much fun that would be, plus in high HP apps, you launch at such a high RPM your probably in boost anyways...yo no se