toddt
Enthusiast
Okay, call me crazy, call me stupid, but hear me out.
Last year, after buying my ACR, 5th and 6th were driving me NUTS! They are so tall as to be almost useless in the case of 6th. So I started toying with my stock GTS "simulation" in Gran Turismo 3.
I found, as a control test, that the numbers GT3 was coming up with for the viper performence VERY closely matched what I was actually seeing from my car.
The first thing I did was fool around with changing the differential. Unfortunately, this only changed which gear was useless--1st. The car suddenly became a 90's RX-7 in first--so short a gear that the wheels were instantly overpowered at anything near half throttle below a certain MPH. Furthermore, it did not solve the ratio gap between 4th and 5-6.
One of the wonderful things about GT3 is that it offers you the ability to change individual gearing in the gearboxes.
Well, after some careful work on the ratios of 5th and 6th, I finally struck a set of ratios that produced some awesome results.
We all know that the viper is drag-limited to around 175-180. Why? Because it's geared to go 280 in 6th, and I forget what in 5th--like 220. 4th falls well short of 180 though, and really it is where it should be, IMHO.
The simulation reflects all this perfectly.
So I took 5th from .740 to .815
and 6th from .500 to .681.
The result: A much more perfectly balanced set of gears, UNCHANGED 0-60 times and 1st-2nd drivability, AND
the car topped out at 203mph RPM LIMITED.
So. Does anyone know where I can get a new set of 5th and 6th gears of these values. :^)
Oh--by the way--I'll just state for the record that the number one worst mods I ever made on my LAST car (blown Z28) was going from the stock 2.42(? memory dimming) to the 3.11s.
Because of the change in the shift points, my car wound up SLOWER. Ugh. One thing it taught me, the hard way, is that a shorter diff is not necessarily better. There is no substitute for research. I wish I could count the number of F-body posters glorifying the gear swap after they themselves had spent the money on it. It's very difficult to admit when you've made a bad mod, sometimes.
Last year, after buying my ACR, 5th and 6th were driving me NUTS! They are so tall as to be almost useless in the case of 6th. So I started toying with my stock GTS "simulation" in Gran Turismo 3.
I found, as a control test, that the numbers GT3 was coming up with for the viper performence VERY closely matched what I was actually seeing from my car.
The first thing I did was fool around with changing the differential. Unfortunately, this only changed which gear was useless--1st. The car suddenly became a 90's RX-7 in first--so short a gear that the wheels were instantly overpowered at anything near half throttle below a certain MPH. Furthermore, it did not solve the ratio gap between 4th and 5-6.
One of the wonderful things about GT3 is that it offers you the ability to change individual gearing in the gearboxes.
Well, after some careful work on the ratios of 5th and 6th, I finally struck a set of ratios that produced some awesome results.
We all know that the viper is drag-limited to around 175-180. Why? Because it's geared to go 280 in 6th, and I forget what in 5th--like 220. 4th falls well short of 180 though, and really it is where it should be, IMHO.
The simulation reflects all this perfectly.
So I took 5th from .740 to .815
and 6th from .500 to .681.
The result: A much more perfectly balanced set of gears, UNCHANGED 0-60 times and 1st-2nd drivability, AND
the car topped out at 203mph RPM LIMITED.
So. Does anyone know where I can get a new set of 5th and 6th gears of these values. :^)
Oh--by the way--I'll just state for the record that the number one worst mods I ever made on my LAST car (blown Z28) was going from the stock 2.42(? memory dimming) to the 3.11s.
Because of the change in the shift points, my car wound up SLOWER. Ugh. One thing it taught me, the hard way, is that a shorter diff is not necessarily better. There is no substitute for research. I wish I could count the number of F-body posters glorifying the gear swap after they themselves had spent the money on it. It's very difficult to admit when you've made a bad mod, sometimes.
