wcryan

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My buddie owns a performance shop and I was telling him about creative steels 8.8 kit. He ended up having a cobra 8.8 with 4.10 gears in it.

Question is. Would you guys rather have our stock gears. Or the 4.10. This diff has a couple thousand miles on it. So I'm very interested in doing the swap

D.K

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4.30s for me personally. I forgot who it was, but someone has vids of a V1 with an 8.8 rear, and 4.30s. It's not that big of a change over the stock ratio.

04Vguy

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id go with our gears. keep the gas mileage
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wcryan

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is there any noticable disadvantages or advantages from going from our gears to 4.10's?

04Vguy

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not to bad gunna run outta gear a lot faster if you track or race, and gas mileage but its all basically personal preference.

1BADCTS

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I would prefer stock gearing. I don't drag race though, so it wouldn't help me any. It would just mean more shifting!

shadyLS6

what are you using the car for DD?

Accelleration v. MPG

there are calculators on the web to show you the difference in each gear with the new 4.10s. plug in the gear ratios from the FAQ and make a personal decision..


Id go with stock 3.73.. or rebuild the trans and throw in a .50 6th with 4.10 rear to try and make up that lost MPG

odthetruth

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Going to 4.10s from 3.73s would drop your top speed from 165ish to about 150 at the top of 5th gear. It will help with low end acceleration at the loss of top speed. I don't think it'll truly be worth it for 4.10s as a DD, but I see where you are going with this... and having another axle we could bolt up to would be good as opposed to 5k axles.

shadyLS6

oh bottom line ... DO IT

xbladr

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Do you really need to go 165ish? I feel the boost in accel down low will more than make up for the 150mph max

ColeGraham

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I have been messing around with the idea of buying an 8.8" from CS...for me, I would either go 3.73s or possiliby 3.55s. 4.10s+ are nice if you plan of spending a lot of time at 1/4. But, IMO, anything big the above 3.73 for a standard commute isnt worth it.

But like shady said, bottom line, do it if you can...haha.

wcryan

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I just talked to max today on the phone about getting his partial kit.

My car isnt my DD and I spend most my time city driving. And when I do use the freeway, it's only for about 15-20 mile trips either direction.

How much do you think my old diff is worth? It's out of an 07

The only reason I want to just go with the 4.10's is because they are already in there and the pumpkin is assembled. Just need max's partial kit

ColeGraham

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If you are mainly city driving with short freeway runs, 4.10s will be good. They will def provide more stop light to stop light fun. And the MPG loss for city driving will be minimal.

How many miles are on the you 07 Diff?

wcryan

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40k. Never seen a track or dragstrip

ColeGraham

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I would say few hundred. If I was selling it, I would ask anywhere from $500 to $700 +shipping. Depending on if its a Gen 3 ($500) diff or Gen 4 ($700), which both came in 07 Vs.

wcryan

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Anyone want dibs on it when I take it out?

s-cam

i just did an 8.8 with the 4.10 gears- its not in the car yet (just working on it actually) but i did it think the bottom end gears could be a bit more fun and I was planning on being able to pull 6th gear with the 4.10s where i thought the 3.73s would be too high of a ratio and 6th gear would be useless up top.

wcryan

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Let me know how everythign goes

itsslow98

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For an N/A car id go 4.10s in the V. 4.30s are a bit much especialyl since 1st gear would be non existent.

Only thing that sucks about the V is if you werent happy with the 4.10s you couldnt stuff a 28" tall tire in the rear to drop the gear ratio a bit.

wcryan

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^^ you think 4.10's would be fine when I decide to supercharge this thing?