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Originally Posted by David Kirkham
Now, there will always be exceptions. Morris wants to run 4.10's in his car with a 5 speed. I think he is crazy.
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well, if you look at the ratio's of a tko600
2.87/1.89/1.28/1/0.82 , you will find that there is a 34% decrease in rpm's when shifting from 1st to 2nd, 32% in 2nd to 3rd, 22% in 3rd to 4th, and 18% from 4th to 5th.
I would guess that morris has found that racing the TKO600 may have a little too spaced gears primarily using 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, and by changing to a 4.10 rear, he'll be instead using 3rd, 4th, and 5th primarily, which obviously have a closer gear spread.
I remember "talking" (on this forum) to him about his tranny choice years ago, i.e.tko600, and thought back then the gears were kind of a wide spread. I actually met him and his brother at a run-n-gun years ago, his brother had bought a csx4000 car about the same time as me.