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I want a better 1/4 mile, should I?

Old 04-20-2004, 04:27 PM
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I have been dwelling on how to better my 1/4 mile besides working on my 60 ft. I have come to the conclusion to go with a 3.73 gear vs my 3.23 in my A4. Is this a good choice? Part of my decision was to preserve as much of my extended warranty as possible so the TQ was out. Will the gear swap help me???
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From what I understand, gears gain a little, but not nearly what a nice T/C will do for you. Maybe a few tenths at max for that gear swap would be my guess.
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Gears are a waste of money at this point IMO. You need POWER! Get rid of that crap flowmaster or at least install a cutout. Dump the HPIII and get a real tune too. Headers and a cam would be a nice start.
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Headers and a convertor would be my next mods.

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Gears are a waste of money at this point IMO. You need POWER! Get rid of that crap flowmaster or at least install a cutout. Dump the HPIII and get a real tune too. Headers and a cam would be a nice start.
Heads and Cam are out until 65k or 6 years when my extended warranty is up.

I plan on getting 2 bullet mufflers and having a shop run true duals with a x pipe from cat back. I just do not know if this will help with HP and 1/4 or how much...

I will have 1000.00 to dump into it in less than a month and was considering a gear swap. At first I was thinking T/C with a 3200 Stall and Trans Go kit with Tran cooler but again that has to wait until warranty is up...

The HPIII programming was removed because the shifting was F ing up.
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Go with a nitrous kit. I sprayed countless bottles at a 150shot through my LEASED LS1. Maybe not the most honest thing in the world though...


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