K4fxd
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The big smile on your face.Anything else to look out for?
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The big smile on your face.Anything else to look out for?
Where did it go?Car is gone.......moot point.
Don't hold me to this , but i think i read somewhere that with the difference in transmission gearing that a 2018 up with 4.56s is comparable with the 2015 - 2017 with 3.73sDo you guys with 4.09 gears think a 4.88 would have been a better choice to net You the results that you were hoping for?
Yah, I've had Kooks LT's and the JLT and I wasn't impressed either way. That was with an A10. Im sure it pulled harder and made more up top but I dont spend alot of time up there and it "seemed" to have a more negative impact on lower RPM response/torque. I'm talking under 3k here.
I wouldn't undo the gears either.
4) Be cognizant of the idea that if you ever go boosted, lower multiplication is going to help with driveability and traction. So while a 4.56 might be the right gear to pep the car up N/A, it will probably be a handful not to roll the tires in every gear once you add the torque and power of a turbo/supercharger.
Really?Absolutely. Not to mention -- even on an N/A car, it is not actually faster with deeper gears. It will feel faster, but it is not actually faster.
As a matter of fact, the car will probably actually dyno lower numbers and trap speeds in there 1/4 will likely be the same or slightly slower.
I agree completely. that has been my experience alsoVery surprised to see guys saying with the swap to 4.09s they didn't notice any difference. On my 06 GT with the stock 3650 Tremec, 4.09s really woke that car up. hard on the throttle you had to really be ready to catch second gear because first went by so fast it would catch you off guard. It was also nice that it would pull in 5th gear for everyday driving. you didn't have to downshift if you wanted to pass somebody unless you really wanted to rip their doors off... lol.
Best mod I ever did to that car the only con that I found to it was you had to give it a lot more gas taking off in first gear to not kill it and if you were driving on any kind of wet surface, you had to start out in second as it would just spin like crazy in first even with little throttle.
The car was definitely faster and the everyday driving pleasure of the car went way up going from 3.55 to 4.09s.
I get the overall gearing in the S550 is probably a lot different but I still would think youd notice a huge difference going to 4.09s. My experience was night and day.
I agree completely. that has been my experience also