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I was just analising and compareing gearing of what I think of modern fast cars. M3, several Porsches, Viper, Vette. I also did BMW 325is, 944, some celicas, corrado VR6
They all share many characteristis. Though all different (except the V8's first gears are WAY different) They all can take 1st to about 40, second to about 70, 3rd to about 100. Which is about what I want to do. With a Cruseing 4th.
Although 1st to 50, 2nd to 80, 3rd to 110 would be spiffy the power and RPMs to get there would be way out there. And would no doubt have to spend much more money. And I am unsure how confident it would be pulling out of corners becouse of the RPMs required to go at X amount of rate. You'd be making X amount of power. But you'd need X amout of power to take off in 1st smoothely, however unless made up for the with sheer RPMS (ie reving to 8 grand) the 1st in this set up would probibly be simililer to 2nd in the stock setup becouse of the custom gearing that there would be no real point except for better regulating of top speed?
New M3 @ 8k. 40, 68, 102, 139, 171, 206. (under 10:1 HP:lb)
911 (Turbo, Carerra. The same form about 96+ 8k (8200 redline but I took the numbers at 8k) 45 80 111 143 173 203
9k 51 91 125 161 195 229 Both of which are WAY powerful
It was interesting to see Viper (also way powerful) @6 grand
57 86 117 152 206 305
My VR6 @7 (under 10:1 HP:lb)
40, 68, 101, 128, 157
All of these are interesting to ponder on. Some of these 5/6 speeds you think hmm I could have made the gearing way lower (who wants to accel on the street over 100 anyway?) but then 1st, 2nd becouse way useless. No burn out gears!!
I did these with factory tires on the cars. It's interesting to see vipers advantage not only in HP but there is so much power there he can wind those gears out bigtime!
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