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Originally Posted by Felix 808 On paper yes, but in the real world, your stock motor is not going to have the power to pull to redline in top gear.

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Old 12-24-2013, 08:42 PM   #7 (permalink)
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On paper yes, but in the real world, your stock motor is not going to have the power to pull to redline in top gear. You would be doing over 200MPH, not possible, but the mechanical advantage gained by lower gears you can actually gain top speed
again what?

gears do not add power it only changes how your car puts down power, and you wont gain top speed, top speed is lower on a car with shorter gears than on a car with longer gears, this is provable in both real life and paper

all gears will do is allow you to get to a certain speed faster(IE a 370z with 4.08 gears will get to 60 faster than a one with the stock gears), if you mean trap speed than yes, you will trap a higher speed but you wont gain top speed, your car cant physically go faster than whatever it will top out at because you are out of RPM as opposed to the car with longer gears, there is no if ands or buts about it, physics and math dont lie

heck you can test it out in the real world yourself, a 6mt 370z will do 155mph in 5th(i know first hand it will), change the FD and it can only do 142mph(assuming your tire diameter is 25.59in like mine is)

now being realistic, will it effect anything we average drivers will experience? no it wont, in fact only thing people will notice is higher RPM at certain speeds which is to be expected since you changed to shorter gears
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