just askin': final drives & gear ratios

Tue Apr 3 18:04:12 EDT 2001

The 0-60 thread got me thinkin' about "Hot Rod" magazine-type discussions.  
Specifically, final drive and/or gear ratio changes to decrease 1/4 mile 
times.  One might consider this for one's '87 5kcstq w/165k mi.; IF one 
could maintain relatively low rpms at highway speeds (3k approx at 80mph)which 
would mean also changing the individual gears I spose.  Anyone done this in 
a quattro application?  On paper, it sounds like it could be good.  Maybe 
not a 4.11 final drive, but something in the 3.63 range maybe?

(it also got me thinkin' cuz I went to the Dinan site and that's one of the 
performance goodies they offer to WMB's)

tawk amongst yourselves, discuss.
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