Re: Gear Ratio's

[Dave Ohlemacher <Dave@ohlemacher.com>]

Have you downloaded the shareware program Cartest? It has the info for about
916 cars.

http://home.earthlink.net/~patglenn/ct.html

For anyone that has used this program . . . why are our cars so slow when
compared to the manufacturers specs?

Dave
91 200 TQW
86 928S
86 Vanagon GL

Wolff wrote:

> Thanks to Chris Miller I have the '91 200 gear ratio's and weight. Turns
> out I have the 4kq numbers in my file. Anyone have the ratios for the
> '84 4k and '87.5 coupe? Weight for the coupe? 2500lbs?
> TIA,
> Wolff
>                 Weight  Gear
>                 LBS     1st     2nd     3rd     4th     5th     final
> '91 200 tq      3627    3.60    2.13    1.36    .97     .73     4.11
> '87.5 coupe
> '86 4kq         2720    3.60    2.13    1.46    1.07    .083    4.11
> '84 4k          2320