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Old May 14th, 2008, 08:21 AM
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Originally Posted by SloGN View Post
well i think that the 3.08 gear will help keep the motor in it's power band longer since you have a mostly stock motor so turning a bunch of rpms is out of the question so the torque will act upon the taller gears better.


the TTA's use a 3.27 gear and they mph better in the 1/4 than the buicks do.
Pat, aren't the TTA's lighter weight also--& w/ 1 mph & .1 sec gains for each 100# wt loss...
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