Alright so a lot of people have questioned me about my current transmission setup. Unfortunately since my car was not up and running I could not give you a real answer. But today is a great day and for the first time I got to actually drive my car!! First off I just have to say it feels so good to be able to drive my car again!



Anyways, So here are some mile per hour pictures for you. Yes I'm sorry my new cluster is in KMH but my laptop was up and on so I knew exactly how fast I was going!


At 65mph so Interstate speed, I was cruising at an amazing 2700rpms!


At Country speed, so 55mph I was at only 2200rpms!



I'm sorry this picture is super blurry! I had to watch the road and try to take this shot which was much harder than balancing the camera on my steering wheel... but it shows speed and RPMs in MPH for those who can't convert KMH

you can see at 61mph i was at 2476rpms :giggity:



As far as the drop from 5th gear to 6th gear it is pretty intense... I didn't take a photo but now that I think of it I will... it is almost a full 1k rpm difference between gears. I would guesstimate around 850-900 rpms different. So you definitely notice you are in 6th gear lol


This season is going to be great for gas mileage hopefully! :vtec:

 

So with the 4.0 final drive I imagine you have some pretty long first gears, no?

I can appreciate the 6th gear for cruising and fuel economy, but I wouldn't want to sacrifice shorter low end gearing for whipping around town.

 

Well the thing about this review people on CRSX are forgetting is my engine/boost setup. I am running the k24 supercharged and make tons of power right away. By 2300 RPMs I'm running almost full torque... So yes I have some awesome long gears which is great to hold all of my power and keep traction. But with my torque numbers from the k24 and a supercharger I feel no loss or sacrifice for daily driving.

So i guess this review is very bias to my setup... a k20 definitely wouldn't be able to handle it

 

Good info.. I might consider this in the future once my turbo setup is installed... we'll see how much traction becomes an issue.

Will you have any track time soon? I want to see new 1/4mile videos with this gearing setup

 

This would of been awesome to have yesterday for me! Did 250 miles of driving in 5th at nearly 3.5k rpms