Home
What's new
Latest activity
Authors
Store
Latest reviews
Search products
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New listings
New products
New profile posts
Latest activity
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
Cart
Cart
Loading…
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Search titles only
By:
Menu
Log in
Register
Navigation
Install the app
Install
More options
Change style
Contact us
Close Menu
Forums
Cobra Forums
The Terminator
Driveline
Soo happy!! 3.90's are on!
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="WS6JJP" data-source="post: 1749083" data-attributes="member: 11520"><p>another thing i never understood...there was a thread awhile back talking about gears/gearing and how they have never really seemed to help on our cars(i wish i could find it)but basically everyone that runs really good times (above average drivers and E.T.'s) are still using the stock gears and....quite of few of those people have tried going to a steeper gear and have slowed down(E.T wise , not trap) They were sayin that with our cars having so much torque throughout the RPM range that you didnt need any type of lower gearing, and that the engine does better letting it stay (and pull) through each gear longer, like somehow it accelerates better that way then if you had to constantly bang the next gear because the gear ratio is so short. Almost what Bob C was saying with the old N/A cobras: not much torque so you need the gear, but with a lot of torque and a lot of gear you're not giving the engine chance to pull through each gear.</p><p></p><p>Now when i was reading this thread i DIDNT really agree with it, simply because anytime you change the gearing for the better it seems it would always have to help you. Even when "calculated" on paper it would almost HAVE to help....but....these people have been at the track and somehow (or maybe not) proved different. Like i said some of them have seemed to be above average drivers so they know you have to get traction to reap the benefits of the steeper gearing or else you'll slow down (E.T.'s) so how is this true?? Their "facts" are right there in black and white (timeslips)</p><p></p><p>if someone could find the thread i guess it would help.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WS6JJP, post: 1749083, member: 11520"] another thing i never understood...there was a thread awhile back talking about gears/gearing and how they have never really seemed to help on our cars(i wish i could find it)but basically everyone that runs really good times (above average drivers and E.T.'s) are still using the stock gears and....quite of few of those people have tried going to a steeper gear and have slowed down(E.T wise , not trap) They were sayin that with our cars having so much torque throughout the RPM range that you didnt need any type of lower gearing, and that the engine does better letting it stay (and pull) through each gear longer, like somehow it accelerates better that way then if you had to constantly bang the next gear because the gear ratio is so short. Almost what Bob C was saying with the old N/A cobras: not much torque so you need the gear, but with a lot of torque and a lot of gear you're not giving the engine chance to pull through each gear. Now when i was reading this thread i DIDNT really agree with it, simply because anytime you change the gearing for the better it seems it would always have to help you. Even when "calculated" on paper it would almost HAVE to help....but....these people have been at the track and somehow (or maybe not) proved different. Like i said some of them have seemed to be above average drivers so they know you have to get traction to reap the benefits of the steeper gearing or else you'll slow down (E.T.'s) so how is this true?? Their "facts" are right there in black and white (timeslips) if someone could find the thread i guess it would help. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Cobra Forums
The Terminator
Driveline
Soo happy!! 3.90's are on!
Top