I have basic knowledge of gear ratios. Shoter gears+ faster accleration + less top speed. Longer gear+ slower accleration + more top speed. What i cant understand are the gear ratio numbers. There was a post that compared a GSR & ITR gear ratios. It looked like alphabet soup to me bu just with numbers. I'm tryin to understand them. The numbers confuse me.

 

most throughout explanation--> http://auto.howstuffworks.com/transmission.htm

basically a gear reduces the axles rotation by what ever # it is, thus multiplying the engines torque/hp by that same number. also all gears go through the final drive. example: lets say at 1000rpm the engine has 100tq and is in 1st gear w/ a ratio of 3.23 and a 4.785 final drive. this means the axles turns .0647 times for every 1 full 360 degree turn of the crank or 64.70 revolutions per minute at 1000rpm. and there is 1545.555ft. lbs. of torque going to the axles

 

good explanation, check up http://www.team-integra.net ..... great articles there as well.