H/C first or gears?
12-21-2011, 06:59 PM
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H/C first or gears? Have some money saved up, so I'm deciding on what to do with it. I already have full bolt ons and light suspension mods.
I'm debating on what I should do, throw gears in now, or should I go H/C? Obviously big price difference, but I'm about 95% sure I want to do H/C in the future. But I've heard gears make such a difference that it may satisfy me.
My goal for the car is to be a weekend warrior/summer car and to be in the 11's hopefully. Basically I want it as fast as possible.
I have also heard that with the right H/C you should keep stock gears.
Any advice on what I should do? If I got gears I'd get 3.90's prob.
Oh and car is a 02 SS M6
I'm debating on what I should do, throw gears in now, or should I go H/C? Obviously big price difference, but I'm about 95% sure I want to do H/C in the future. But I've heard gears make such a difference that it may satisfy me.
My goal for the car is to be a weekend warrior/summer car and to be in the 11's hopefully. Basically I want it as fast as possible.
I have also heard that with the right H/C you should keep stock gears.
Any advice on what I should do? If I got gears I'd get 3.90's prob.
Oh and car is a 02 SS M6
12-21-2011, 07:12 PM
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I think it depends on what cam you go with as far as gears. I would go with something more than 3.90's though. If you go H/C and 4.10's you will be well into the 11's.
12-21-2011, 07:16 PM
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It's all the other stuff the adds to the cost, labor, gaskets, tuning, exhaust, etc whereas the gears are a pretty basic upgrade and makes a huge difference. You can get a set of gears and good lsd for under $1000 and a good head cam package is going to run you double for sure for just the parts.
My old 5.0 fox body I had, I swapped the rear gears from 2.73 to 3.73 and made a full second difference at the track and felt huge on the street. The next mod was heads and a cam, headers, etc, and only brought me down another half a second in the quarter.....and cost five times as much to do.
My old 5.0 fox body I had, I swapped the rear gears from 2.73 to 3.73 and made a full second difference at the track and felt huge on the street. The next mod was heads and a cam, headers, etc, and only brought me down another half a second in the quarter.....and cost five times as much to do.
12-21-2011, 07:21 PM
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if you dont want as much down time, build your car from the rear to the front... you break less **** that way...put h/c and your tranny or rear will go... build a tranny and you kill the rear.. build your rear and it outlasts tranny and motor in stock form.... most bang for your buck is a set of gears...4:10 will roll out hard... best mod for the money if you ask me...
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12-21-2011, 08:52 PM
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Read the 3000 stall or 3.73s thread I started....I chose 3.73s (had 2.73s) and I'm completly satisfied...A H/C, now that I've got a chance to ride in one will hands down give you more power race wise..... Gears are fun comparably to the stock 2.73 I had...SOTP goes up dramaticly driving through town and it "feels" like I picked up a whole lotta performance...But an H/C is proven to give better performance gains than gears..
12-21-2011, 09:02 PM
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Im not sure.... generally 3:42 to 4:10s is a 20% increase (approx)... I cruise in my a4 at 80 mph at about 2500rpm.. so Id guess it would raise it about 500 rpm... A4s are a little more picky because their line pressure or shift points are pre tuned and dependant on you MAF... You would be changing it quite a bit and I dont know if you would have to get some sort of tune or reprogram so the tranny doesnt burn itself up... Im not tranny professional but I would PM 01redssa4, hes the tranny guru of tech... he could tell you for sure..
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Im not sure.... generally 3:42 to 4:10s is a 20% increase (approx)... I cruise in my a4 at 80 mph at about 2500rpm.. so Id guess it would raise it about 500 rpm... A4s are a little more picky because their line pressure or shift points are pre tuned and dependant on you MAF... You would be changing it quite a bit and I dont know if you would have to get some sort of tune or reprogram so the tranny doesnt burn itself up... Im not tranny professional but I would PM 01redssa4, hes the tranny guru of tech... he could tell you for sure..
Wait, do you have a stick or automatic? In your other post you said you cruise in 6th.
12-21-2011, 11:31 PM
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Thanks for the responses (minus the hijacker 
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I guess a better question would
be, should I even get gears if I know I'll go H/C anyway? Won't be launching it a whole lot but if I got gears then AND H/C I'd still be on the stock rear end..
) I guess a better question would
be, should I even get gears if I know I'll go H/C anyway? Won't be launching it a whole lot but if I got gears then AND H/C I'd still be on the stock rear end..
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