275/60 mickeys
have QA1's with 14-175s up front doing a full UPR rear with strange shocks... havent made my mind up on springs yet. need to make a pass with the bottle to see what kinda MPH i'll be making and where im at before i make the leap for 4.30's. even though i can build the rear id rather not have to keep swapping gears till i get it right
Your 98 is a mod engine though. Its a different animal when it comes to gears then the 5.0
Im putting 4.30s in my car as we speak with 9" ends going on the rear, and all this gear talk is relative, guys on the motor or spray are gonna want more gear as long as thier motor can support the target rpms, i know what MPH i trap at and with the new setup i should be around 6400 through the traps, it dosent bother me that i will be cruising 300 rpms higher at 65mph and 500 rpms higher at 80mph, its really not that much, overdrive is a wonderful thing, now if i had a turbo car, i probly wouldnt run more than a 3.55 gear from what ive been reading recently.
Its hard to sell anything more than a 3.73 or 4.10 gear to the bolt on five oh crowd, because its been in magazines forever that 3.73 is the way to go with a 5-speed, while thats a great combo(ran it for 5 years up till now), its not black and white, different people want different things and even a bone stock 5.0 could work very well with 4.30 gears and a good set of tires
yes SCREW the 3.73 gear, go higher... If the car runs well, the mpg should be good..
Its not as bad as you would think, in 5th, its only 300 rpms at 65mph.
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