For a street car that's not after every last tenth of ET, I like higher gear sets. I also don't mind a short smoke show 1st gear. Right foot input will control that on the street anyway. Stop and go traffic? That short gear will be happier on the clutch.

I had a TKO with .64 OD. I hated having RPM so low that 5th gear was useless below 65 mph. I went 4.56 and loved it. Tire frying through 3rd if I wanted to, yet cruise the highway at 70 mph at 2400 RPM.