[QUOTE]Originally posted by GTEF8
[B]You guys are always full of info...too cool.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by gernby
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I don't think anyone swaps back and forth.

 

If money was no object, I'm sure more people would do that too, but it would be a great expense for relatively small benefit compared to so many other mods.

 

looks like I am the only one on this board with the 4.3 setup in the future.
I have it on my desk and I wait for my comptech reinforcement bracket. Is there anyone here with the J's 4.3 ???

 

its much simpler to run a larger diameter tire to change effective final drive. but i think its always going to be a matter of shorter is better for acceleration.......if you need acceleration. You see in road racing, the higher gear you take a turn, the faster you go(naturally, but not necessarily intuitive). So what i mean is, if you have a taller 3rd gear, for example, and its still a 3rd gear corner no matter which final drive, you will force yourself to go faster in the long term, if you can get there. also smoother before you get there. so stock gearing could even be best???

 

sky chicken, I have 4.3 ring/pinion in my differential. Mine was from Jet's Integral Kobe though since at the time I did J's Racing didn't offer the gears. But prior to that I had my secondary gears swapped out made by ATS and that according to the spec changed the ratio to 4.51.
As far as I can tell, the difference of swapping to 4.3 ring/pinion was kind of subtle but no doubt about the difference in feeling of acceleration.

 

I agree that it is not a straight forward decision for road course work. On many tracks it will increase the number of shifts and that is not a good thing. But if you have a course and speed where it is the opposite so you could stay in a higher gear more, I can see where it would be faster. So both course and driver skill would determine weather it is really and aid to faster lap times.

Most of my experience is at TWS and the places I would want more gearing is when I screwup or am off my own pace in #6 and #10 (maybe helpful coming out of 13,15,15). But if my gearing was lower I would spend even more time against the limiter in the short straights before #4, #10, #12, #13, or have to shift into fourth and right back to third which would make me even less smooth than I am.

I will stick with the stock gearing.

 

What about the non-road course world? Where the extra shifts don't matter too much?

How about auto-x? I joined some this year I can't wait!

If you had a stock car which would you do first Coil Overs or gearing? It's a tough question because i'm already very happy with the way the s2k rides.

If coil overs which ones would you get?

-Ed

 

P.S.
I'm not looking for faster lap times, I'm looking for more fun.

-Ed

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by NoMoreWRX
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