the diffrence between 3.00 and 3.25 rear gear ratio

I'm not sleeping tonight. Just in case my 8" tries to walk off...

 

can you give some more info on this as in mods and pricing
not to jack your thread:Handshake

brad

 

just make sure you have the enforcer loaded with rock salt

brad

 

No rock salt. 00Buck is all I keep in mine.

 

yep you need to put a 9 inch rear..I have a housing that uses you axles and backing plates and then purchase a 9 inch center and you will be good to go after that

 

YES IT WAS THE STAGE 3 CLUTCH THAT BROKE IT

i got it fixed today

i went to a auto dismantler and bought the rear third member for 150

and he sed that it was a 3.25 gear out of a ranchero (?? year)

but it is a 1.75-1 gear ratio and that's the only one that i can find around me so i have to use it and it maid my gears 5-mph longer it went from 25 to 30 and 45 to 50 mph

and after i put every thing together i noticed that the third member does not have a fill hole so i had to pull a axle to fill it

so i will be going to the track wednesday (and not drop the clutch)

 

must be a pre 67 center section with no fill plug

 

Agreed. Thats why I'll keep my C4. I can do less damage.
Almost went 4 speed in my first car but figured I'd grenade the 8 inch sooner or later and couldnt afford a nine inch.

 

i went from a 3.00-1 to a 1.75 and gained 5 mph

so if i would have went to a 4.25-1 would i have lost 5 mph

i droped almost half of the ratio and it only has a 5 mph difference ???

 

im woried for your t5 also. ive see alot of them brake when a strong grabing cluch is used. i would not power shift it (where you dont lift off the gas when you shift). i kept my t5 in one pice by running a stock replacement clutch from the parts store that had a life time warentee. i would replace it every 6 months. the clutch would slip enough that you didnt put to much of a shock load into the trans. the clutch worked well till i was running low 12s to high 11s. then it would slip pretty bad and be stinking really bad after a run. then it was tremic trans time.

 

it only turns 1.75 times for 1 turn of the tire i even tested it by turning the tire on the other side

not sure if 1.75 is that gear but it is very close to that

i think that the place that i bought it from thought it was a 3.25- because thats what the car came stock with but they should have checked it

 

Only one tire is turning so you have to double the number - 3.50 if you were very accurate in your measurements.

 

and being an 8" would put it at 3.55.

The common gears for the 8" are 2.79, 3.00, 3.25, 3.55, 3.80, 4.11