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You want to be fast, you need wheelspeed, not rpm. A steep gear is usually a lot of noise from engine rpm, but the car is going nowhere.

Monte

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You want to be fast, you need wheelspeed, not rpm. A steep gear is usually a lot of noise from engine rpm, but the car is going nowhere.

Monte

did you ever see a super stock car all of them has steep gears?

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SS,stock and other class cars that are held to limits and specs need to use every way possible to gain every minute advantage and max output. A car with unlimited combos,weight,cubic inches,power adders,with no restrictions are more likely to benifit from less gear.Most bracket cars fall in this catagory(less gear).They would never last winging them with deep gears,where as a class car doesn't have to run hundereds of rounds each season and are heavely maintained after only a few runs.

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You want to be fast, you need wheelspeed, not rpm. A steep gear is usually a lot of noise from engine rpm, but the car is going nowhere.

Monte

did you ever see a super stock car all of them has steep gears?

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You want to be fast, you need wheelspeed, not rpm. A steep gear is usually a lot of noise from engine rpm, but the car is going nowhere.

Monte

did you ever see a super stock car all of them has steep gears?

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As BG said, this is not a stocker, super stocker, pro stocker, or comp car, that has a tiny power window and are trying to ring every ounce out of it. You can't compare class cars with bracket racers. In stock, you have stock bore/stroke motors, with factory heads and carbs running 9s, in heavy cars on a small tire. Most average bracket cars with 500in motors, big tires and link suspensions are lucky to do that and most will be as quick or quicker, with less gear. Its more about the torque converter than anything.

Monte

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X2 Class cars also rely on dead hook which terminates HP and torque,a bracket or quick car likes a little wheelspin and it is controled by proper use of torque application in various methods:gears,converters,launch controls and etc.It's been proven over and over less gear=more MPH=better ET in most cases.Case in point my car started with 5.13 and picked up going to 4.88,in the quest to lessen the RPM at the stripe we switched to 4.56 and the car picked up even more.With the over abundence of HP and torque the Hemi makes we may consider 4.30s.We did this in Ron McCellands Hemi and he dropped from 9.60s to 9.50 with the gear being the only change.