Get gaers put in this Friday need help on ratio

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Well im going in Friday to get my rearend rebuilt and have gears put in. I cant make up my mind on the ratio I want, A little back ground on the car and what I plan on doing to it. Right now it has aluminum flywheel, full catback and a tune. I plan on keeping the car N/A and doing a head and cam swap later. I may put a supercharger on it if I find a good used kit but Im not loooking for one. I'm a weekend crusier and like stop light to stop light runs with a few high way run every now and again with a trip to the drag strip once or twice a year. I do like going on cruises with VCA every now and then. I have always been a fan of gears and have run 4:30s in my mustang for some years, so im torn between 3:73 or 3:91 and im really leaning towards 3:91. Does this sound like a good gear for what I want to do
 
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3:73 gears are great for Stock Gen 1and Gen 2. As you go up in HP, you will want to go lower in the ratio. I would not use 3:73 with more than 500hp. Then 3:55s till about 600hp. Then drop them again as you add more power. 3;45 3:31 or keep the stock 3:07 with high
hp. I have used 3:73, 3;55, and 3:45s.
 
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vancouver-gts said:
Not enough power even though I have 4.10 gear ,lol. Not planning any power adder for mine!
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How do you like the 4.10s? How are they with highway driving? Ive done alot more reading and based off shift points and how I like to drive Im now thinking 3.73. I know everyone like 3.55 but everytime Ive gone with what everyone else goes with I always end up wishing I went a little lower.
 
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ive driven a gen2 with 3.33 gears, that to me seemed perfect. tons of guys do the 3.55's and i cant imagine more than those.
 
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I run 3.45. I find it much zippier off the line, but I find it a bit thirstier on the highway and the revs a bit too high for long trips.

As we all know I don't drive my car on LONG trips so that is not an issue for me. :D

I would say 3.33 would be a good in between. 3.55 would also still be very workable if you want the extra grunt due to stock power and want to to a bit of stop light racing
 
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Are you planning on staying with stock wheel/tire diameters. I had 3.73 with few mods. After S/C, car would still hook good with V700's, but didn't care for the "constant" shifting. Dropped back to 3.33's and love 'em. If you go to 20" rears, I think a 3.73 nets out to 3.45.
 
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I'd be curious as to how many of the replies have actually driven a Viper with 3.73's or even 4.11's?

My GTS has the 4.11's and it drives great, especially for around-town jaunts. Car just has smooth tubes, K&N, no cats, and a cat-back. It cruises along in 6th gear at 72 mph at about 1900 RPM and I get right at 19mpg like that...but I do have 19" wheels and tires.

I bought the car with 4.11's already installed but if I were doing gears myself, I would go with 3.73...not because the 4.11's are outrageous, but because these engines make so much broad torque and power that I can't imagine 3.73's would feel much different, yet they would give me just a little better highway efficiency.

With that being said, I would go 3.73 if I were you. Hope that helps.
 
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I like the 4.10 with the OEM 18" wheels, only K&N and freeflow MAgnaflow mufflers. I wouldn't go any lower than 3:73 . When I bought my 1972 Challenger 340 new it came with 3:23 gears and had to change it
to get any get up and go performance out of it.My 68 Charger, 383 cu had 3:73 and loved it. Never liked highway gears except in my 64 Lincoln that weighs over 5000lbs, that needed the countermeasure for fuel economy on long trips.;)Each to their own, but like I said am not going to supercharge the car.I have no problem controlling my right foot:lmao:.

Ps; I keep side to side with my friend's Noble M400 0-60 and those are known to do 3.3 sec with 425 HP .He has the car tuned over 450HP with 15 ponds of boost and a measly 2350 lbs weight.One of these days I'll take the car to Mission raceway just for giggles to see what the car really does.

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I just took out 4.10's and put in 3.7s. 4.10s are definitely too steep. I went to 3.7s so I could make it through the quarter mile in forth.
 
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Thanks guys after talking with Jon at parts rack and devin at unitrax. I'll be going with 3.73. Jon really happen me out and gave me a military discount plus I'm paying the parts and labor from partsrack so I don't have to pay taxes. It's a win win. I will definitely write back on how the car feels with 3.73 once they get put in
 
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