"Burn rubber and have fun"? 4.10 then.also forgot to add they are the same price right now at lmr i’m pretty sure, and i don’t do too much highway driving i just want to burn rubber and have fun
what do you suggest then because i don’t have a ton of highway driving and my trans already does that with the gears in it now it only downshifts in my foot is to the floor and then it goes down into second and also how bad was the 5-spd swap because i’ve also been thinking about thatI put 3.73's in my AOD car and hated them. Yeah it was fun and quick from 0-40MPH, but any sort of highway driving got annoying. The AOD won't allow WOT in Overdrive, and highways cruise at 80-85MPH around here. If you wanted to pass a car and had to get on the gas, the trans would drop out of OD and practically rev up to redline. It got highly annoying. I swapped to 5-spd and it was much more usable on the highway with the 3.73's
Really up for you to decide. Plenty of RPM calculators out there.
what do you suggest then because i don’t have a ton of highway driving and my trans already does that with the gears in it now it only downshifts in my foot is to the floor and then it goes down into second and also how bad was the 5-spd swap because i’ve also been thinking about that
yeah i’m pretty far from highways and everything so i’m leaning towards 4.10 just to have some fun because it’s completely stock and not making much hp right now anyway so thanks, and yeah i’ve been trying to find a t5 with everything i need without breaking the bank soI can't really decide for you. You need to make that decision yourself. My car was pretty quick, so I think I would have enjoyed 3.27's with the AOD. I did a lot of drag racing though back in those days, and the 3.73's made that car really fast for what it was. I had a couple bolt-ons in a otherwise stock AOD LX and was running 14.1's with that setup.
I just hated driving it around on a highway cruise and stopped going to car shows with it if it required a 45min+ ride on the highway.
5-spd swap wasn't bad really. Worse part was gathering all the parts. Second worst part was the pedals, but I've done a pedal removal a handful of times now and it's really not too bad at all.
that’s what i’m thinking, especially if a manual swap is down the road at some pointThere is an old saying...."Don't fear the gear". I have 3:73's in my AOD car(s) but I wish I went 4:10's sometimes. The last thing you want regret not going with 4:10's.
I've seen many an axles with grooves worn in them from the bearings. Good times.Use this if you are replacing the bearing. RP-5707 it is called the "Axel Saver" bearing. It is at least twice as thick as the one you will remove and it re located the bearing to the outside of the housing. In this the reasoning is when the bearing goes bad under the OEM parts the shaft will grind down onto the axel housing and cause the shaft itself to need replacing.... Just something to think on when you are getting into this rear end. Since you are taking it apart, it makes sense to take this extra step to ensure success.
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?