Reply to "gear ratios for race"

It doesn't matter how fast mph it goes in first gear, it's how HARD it pulls in first gear, 60ft times is what you are working for.

You are talking to a Yank though. We have just a little different criteria?

Only on a few occasions have our race cars been set up to where they pull like crap off the line.

One of those instances was the 427 GT40 cars at LeManns. Euro race stuff. Ford was SO concerned that the 427's wouldn't last the full 24 hours that they limited the rpms of the cars on the track.

They did this in two ways, 1) they set a 6000 rpm upper engine limit 2) they made special final drive ratios of 2:1.

That enabled the cars to go over 200 (220) but they were so weak in first gear that the mechanics had to give them a push start like a bobsled team to get them rolling.

So all of this is relative. You are the only one who can define what the car needs to do. Then you gear it accordingly.



Personally I say, "if you talk the talk, you had better walk the walk". If it is supposedly a kick ass car, it had better produce big time or don't show up. That's just me.

Even a 2v station wagon can pull hard if geared right. There are some drag racers and former drag racers here. You need to know gearing otherwise it can be a waste of time.

"YOU", some will may need the windshield wipers to clean MY rubber off of their windshield and there will could be plenty of it, I don't drive well? Oh and from the Webers too. They make a terrible slimy exhaust mess. Very distasteful and crude.

I don't need the wipers and I don't need no stinkin' rear view mirrors. The Ferrari guys hate me for it. It makes their Gucci loafers smell of tire rubber and this foul smelling, oily/fuel mess all over the windshield makes them run right to the car wash! I can't blame that for that? Yuck!




Oh forget all that, lol, just gear the car to pull hard in every gear.