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Old Feb 10, 2008 | 07:57 PM
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Why does everyone say you shouldn't go with any higher gear than 3.73 in an A4? Just because of bad gas mileage, or rear end will break? I saw Motive offers a 3.90 ring and pinion for 7.5" 10 bolt. Will they be a bad choice?
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Old Feb 10, 2008 | 08:11 PM
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At some point you are going to be hitting or exceeding red-line on the tach going through the traps at the strip with a numerically higher gear. This is not desirable and what most refer to as having too much gear. Oh and the mileage goes to hell too.
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it really depends what you'll be doing with the car, for the street thats too much gear bt for the strip thats not a bad choice but you could go bigger. If its both, id stick with a 3:73, just my .02
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Old Feb 10, 2008 | 08:46 PM
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Thank you, that answers my question! 3.73's it is!
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