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Originally Posted by 496fe
Just a coupla thoughts... The close-ratio toploader might not be such a good idea with the amount of torque you have. Usually, the more torque, the wider you want your gears. I had the close-ratio toploader in a previous Cobra and found that first gear was too high, plus I found myself skipping gears while street driving. A lot of 1-2-4 and 1-3-4 and sometimes even 2-4! The FE is quite literally a truck motor and you will get tired of using all the gears. Almost everybody is going with the TKO 600 because of it's wide ratios and unbelievable tall overdrive 5th gear
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Its all a matter of personal preference. Personally, I prefer the close ratio toploader over the WR toploader or TKO tranny's. I've changed from a WR toploader to a CR in fact.
Yes, the gears are closely spaced, and you can skip gears while street driving, but that's not what the CR was developed for. I think it was developed mainly for drag racing. The true street tranny's offered by Ford were the 3 speeds, WR toploaders, and overdrive toploaders.
For street driving, the TKO and/or WR toploader is a better tranny, wider spaced gears, and the ability to get greater economy with cruising. But, when you're on the track, either drag or road racing, I think the CR toploader is clearly superior.
I just don;t see the BIG PROBLEM everybody is having with the ability to have optimal cruising, to save a few hundred rpms. I would say most cobra owners don't drive their vehicles daily, and saving a mile or 2 per gallon to me is taking away from the performance the cobra was meant to have.
I have a drag pack mustang, CR toploader, 3.91 rears, and it's fine for cruising down the freeway, several times a year, or even several times a month. No problem. With the cobra, a lighter car, you can run 3.54 rears and it would be even better.
For me, it's a CR toploader, or any other tranny with similar ratio's. No more WR tranny's for me.
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Originally Posted by 496fe
Ironically, the best 0-60 times seem to be obtained by "driving out" in first and short-shifting into second.
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That's because in most cases the tranny-rear ratio's are not optimally matched, and you have to short shift because of the short comings of the tranny-rear combination. No short shifts for me.
The TKO's are fine tranny's, and great for the street, actually, about any tranny would be fine for the street, because you usually don;t take the car to the limit while street driving.
It's all personal preference.
Tallguy, you have to decide what's right for you.