3.42 Vs 3.73
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3.42 Vs 3.73
So a friend of mine just bought a 95 Lt1 and it has the stock 3.23's. Tried to find a thread on feed back about changing to 3.42 or 3.73 but came up short. He's got a stock A4 4l60e, drives a lot of hwy miles. Do you think 3.73 will be too much for the hwy. Be nice to find a site with a chart on both.
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I would just stay with 3.23's if I were him, I wouldnt be able to justify the cost of installation and gears plus new bearings etc. etc. just to go from a 3.23 to a 3.42 and for there to be a minimal performance gain. I would say go 3.73 without doubt but because of the highway driving I would just recommend your friend stays stock and puts the money elsewhere maybe into a converter which would be a much greater performance gain then upgrading to 3.42's and would not effect highway rpm's.
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I would just stay with 3.23's if I were him, I wouldnt be able to justify the cost of installation and gears plus new bearings etc. etc. just to go from a 3.23 to a 3.42 and for there to be a minimal performance gain. I would say go 3.73 without doubt but because of the highway driving I would just recommend your friend stays stock and puts the money elsewhere maybe into a converter which would be a much greater performance gain then upgrading to 3.42's and would not effect highway rpm's.
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Is your car A4 or M6 curious because of your username and what kind of driving do you do? 2.73's are amazing on the highway but so are 3.23's. I use to drive the turnpike everyday with my old LT1 that had 3.23's and I got good mpg and was very happy. There is definetly a noticible performance gain going from 2.73's to 3.23's but still some left out on the table.
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Here's a pretty cool gear calculator to play with. http://www.f-body.org/gears/ I may be showing my age, but I was playing with cars long before A-4 transmissions were available. A 4.10 gear with a 60E is not bad at all to me since I've taken road trips in cars that ran 3500 at 60 mph.
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Here's a pretty cool gear calculator to play with. http://www.f-body.org/gears/ I may be showing my age, but I was playing with cars long before A-4 transmissions were available. A 4.10 gear with a 60E is not bad at all to me since I've taken road trips in cars that ran 3500 at 60 mph.
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M6 with stockers(3.42)
My question is what kind of gains do you get out of gears? I know there good but what kind of good? I don't realy care about fuel but I don't want to run constent high rpms on the highway. I have access to 3.73's but sould I get 4.10?
My question is what kind of gains do you get out of gears? I know there good but what kind of good? I don't realy care about fuel but I don't want to run constent high rpms on the highway. I have access to 3.73's but sould I get 4.10?
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I run 4.10's in a A4 definetly dont recomend for a hwy car. I eventually might drop to 3.73 gears. I really like the 4.10's around town and at the track, its ok taking the back roads to town, but nearly impossible to take on the interstate. if he gets a different daily driver and is going to keep the car for a weekend toy to go raise hell in id definely go with 4.10s.