(ok first off i did a search on gear ratios and on gears and i found nothing that could help me understand it better)
The kid with Steeda short shifter in his Mondeo from my other post, was telling about how gear ratio works.
So for example let's say that your crank torque is 165 and you have a 3.34 1st gear and a 3.48 final drive. He said take the 164x3.34x2.48 to get your actual torque, does this mean wheel torque? Or something else?
Secondly I asked him what 3.34 actually meant and he said that for every 3.34 rpms the transmission is receiving it is putting out 1 Rpm, where does that go to the wheels would be my guess am I right? and then he goes if you have a higher gear ratio, more acceleration. Then I said that lower would be higher top speed and he said no, you would need a lot of torque to gain on this. So i thought that a this might be worthy of the Street Flight turbo kit, what do you think?
Now I have some more general questions.... what are the gear ratios in the mtx 75 for the v6 and what are they for the 4 cylinder since i have read that changing to the zetec final drive is worth it for high powered engines becuase it will help on wheel spin?
I also said that I had heard that hardening the gears made them stronger(as I had read Leo has done this) and he said well it's really bad to harden your gears if it's not done right, what did this mean?
Any help understanding this further is greatly appreciated,
Mike
The kid with Steeda short shifter in his Mondeo from my other post, was telling about how gear ratio works.
So for example let's say that your crank torque is 165 and you have a 3.34 1st gear and a 3.48 final drive. He said take the 164x3.34x2.48 to get your actual torque, does this mean wheel torque? Or something else?
Secondly I asked him what 3.34 actually meant and he said that for every 3.34 rpms the transmission is receiving it is putting out 1 Rpm, where does that go to the wheels would be my guess am I right? and then he goes if you have a higher gear ratio, more acceleration. Then I said that lower would be higher top speed and he said no, you would need a lot of torque to gain on this. So i thought that a this might be worthy of the Street Flight turbo kit, what do you think?
Now I have some more general questions.... what are the gear ratios in the mtx 75 for the v6 and what are they for the 4 cylinder since i have read that changing to the zetec final drive is worth it for high powered engines becuase it will help on wheel spin?
I also said that I had heard that hardening the gears made them stronger(as I had read Leo has done this) and he said well it's really bad to harden your gears if it's not done right, what did this mean?
Any help understanding this further is greatly appreciated,
Mike
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