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986Jim · 04-21-2006, 05:18 AM

Its fairly common on those cars as they are geard 3-5 for really long top end and 1-2 for acceleration, so typically they change a few gears to add to top end or accelerations..

I find our gear ratios quite balanced, so not sure what type of change your looking for. If you jsut want more top end a ring and pinion might be a better idea for you. Not sure of porsche or somebody else makes them for our cars or not.

I changed my GTI from a 3.94 gear to a 3.39 so I lost top end but bottom end acceleration was amazing. It would only do 125mph top though (from 155) but getting there was damn fast. In the end I decided I prefered the stock gear and I was shifting too much at the track and found it distracting and annoying plus I was losing time switching to 4th all the time when 3rd before was good enough.

04-21-2006, 05:18 AM	#2
986Jim Registered User Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Toronto Ontario Posts: 291	Its fairly common on those cars as they are geard 3-5 for really long top end and 1-2 for acceleration, so typically they change a few gears to add to top end or accelerations.. I find our gear ratios quite balanced, so not sure what type of change your looking for. If you jsut want more top end a ring and pinion might be a better idea for you. Not sure of porsche or somebody else makes them for our cars or not. I changed my GTI from a 3.94 gear to a 3.39 so I lost top end but bottom end acceleration was amazing. It would only do 125mph top though (from 155) but getting there was damn fast. In the end I decided I prefered the stock gear and I was shifting too much at the track and found it distracting and annoying plus I was losing time switching to 4th all the time when 3rd before was good enough.