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Old Apr 23, 2008 | 08:52 PM
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i'm looking at re-gearing my transmission and i was wondering what the concensus was on it?

as of right now i have a super long gearset with an even longer final drive

1-2-3-4-5-FD


3.310 1.810 1.232 0.900 0.710
4.062
and i'm looking to replace 1-4 with these

3.307 1.950 1.360 1.034
and then change i have the option of changing out the final drive to either 4.266 (stock upgrade) or an aftermarket 4.64 or 5.15

cruising is not an issue, but just for the course, auto-x and track, what would be better, obviously shorter gears=more shifting, but i'll have better acceleration but won't be able to hold gears nearly as long. i'm sure there is a tradeoff somewhere that is optimal, most people do the 4.64 for the street because they don't like cruising at 80 around 5K RPMs. but that isn't an issue, so in terms of just racing, what would be best?

i can crunch the numbers and give you the MPH for each gear if it'd help
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