Wondering in doing this on my itr tranny cuz I know the itr 5th gear are high like b16 are would it be better to put a 5th gsr gear for freeway?help let me know what you guys think

 

ls would be your best best bet if your looking to cruise at low rpm. gsr would drop rpm a bit too...

 

Well I know ls drops alot but I'm looking for not a big drop a decent 5th I have a gsr tranny on my b20 vtec and I love it's 5th gear so I was wondering to put it in my itr what u think would it drop alot or be in there?

 

here play around with this....

http://www.zealautowerks.com/transcalc.php

 

Thanks will check

 

No, keep the ITR 5th. GSR or LS will get you worse economy, acceleration (you'll need to drop down to 4th on hills), and bad (GSR) / horrible (LS) RPM drops/jumps on upshift/downshift(s).

 

So the 5th gsr gear won't help has much on freeway ?

 

i just put a gsr 4.40 on my ls gears. i really like the the ls gear with that final drive. freeway is geat. with the stock 4.26 tho it blows

 

I'm a fan of a short ratio gear tranny ls to long

 

ITR fifth is .848

Gs-R fifth is .787. It will drop you about 250rpm at 70mph.

LS fifth is.714. It will drop you ~600rpm at 70mph.

I would agree with Aquafina. Gs-R is not enough to be worth the effort, LS is too much of a drop.

 

Thanks bro I guess I'm meaning it how it is thanks guys

 

Leaving

 

If anything I'd recommend the JDM ITR final drive (going opposite of what you're thinking).

5th gear / 80mph / ~4,800rpm = WIN

Great accel on the freeway.

 

in japan the 98 spec has a .787 5th gear combined with a 4.7 final drive. I'm going to go with GSR 787 5th with my 4.9FD.

 

Thanks yea I'm thinking in leaving the itr untouch for now

 

If u go higher wouldn't u have really short gears even on 5th?

 

Yes. The 4.9 fd is super short. Like fifth-gear-at-25mph-no-problem short.

 

I can do 15mph in 5th with my D16 without bogging. 1.000 5th.

 

Oh wow that real short well I love the itr gear ratios just that I need a freeway 5th gear not to high not to low

 

just go with LS it works out good for hiway.

 

Yes all the revs rise and you can comfortably chill in 5th gear going 40mph and you're good. GSR 5th would drop the revs a bit compared to the ITR. The LS 5th would drop it even more but you'd have too much of a drop for road race applications.

 

Yea but the LS will drop to much