Those are funny. There is one right by my girlfriend's dormitory and everybod slows down to 25mph as FAST as they can when they see it.

 

i don't think it feels like only 22 hp.

 

on milwaukee freeways they sometimes just park a cruiser on the side of a road by an underpass. and they leave it there, unmanned. lol.

 

The reason is that the shorter final drive does 2 things to rev faster thru' each gear:

1). It provides more wheel torque from the same hp as we know it
2). the terminal speed of each gear is lower

Because of these, a 10%-shorter gear "appears" to rev thru' each gear 19% faster (0.9 x 0.9 = 0.81) even though it's only accelerating 10% faster in each gear. That's why it "feels" more than 22hp.

 

Plus, you don't have speedo correction, so probably you think you're going 11% faster than actual (until you do the calculations in your head).

Also you can think 11% at the crank so 240hp (or 238hp new rating) ~+26hp. I know that's the same as +22hp at the wheels, but it sounds better.

 

Man I want this mod.

 

Unmanned eh? Time to find a locksmith and go joyriding... maybe pull over some 'stangs and camaros