4.10's or X-Pipe?

I just installed a Dr. Gas x-pipe with cats and Ford Motorsports 4.10 gears and drove the car with the x-pipe first then installed the gears and the change was night and day!!!!!!!!! Gears were the best money i've spent to date

look under ur car and there should be a cylindrical tube going into the transmission held on by 2 screws, unbolt that and pull it out and you will find a plastic toothed gear held on by a c-clip. Order a 4.10 calibrated plastic gear from summit,(15$) and replace the old gear and re-insert it back in the tranny and that should take care of the speedo recalibration.

RED98Z28 said:

look under ur car and there should be a cylindrical tube going into the transmission held on by 2 screws, unbolt that and pull it out and you will find a plastic toothed gear held on by a c-clip. Order a 4.10 calibrated plastic gear from summit,(15$) and replace the old gear and re-insert it back in the tranny and that should take care of the speedo recalibration.

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well red, that's all good in theory. but unfortunately it doesn't fix it AT ALL. it makes it a little better, but far from close i did that with my old car & it was still off 5-20 mph. i should have just got a chip, or speedo recal. it might just have been my experience, but i don't think so. i think ole mrvax has had his fair share of trouble with those plastic gears

on a side note, i was told that our cars (actually those with the 3650 tranny) didn't have those gears in the tranny at all. can anyone positively, confirm or deny this

Milenko said:

I just got the 4.10s.

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Good choice

Milenko, i just installed my first set of gears in my 2002 today. I studied the superstallions website and corral. Both are linked off of "jim's mustang mods" (see link below). It took me aproximately 5 hrs. I did the install at the local auto hobby shop on the air force base that I live on. If you know someone who is in the military and can let you use their onbase hobby shop, then doing the gears yourself is a viable option beacuse the hobby shops have 90% of the tools you need. I had access to a 60 ton hydraulic press,torque wrenches, a lift, etc. If you can't do this, I would suggest letting a mechanic do it. The average price I found was around 175-200 dollars. Some were as high as 400 though. Gene Evans Racing and Stangstore.com have the cheapest prices on gears.Talk to Martin at stangstore and he will help you out. I haven't drove the car yet though, I have a few more things to finish up with it. I enjoy working on my car, and I am a average "D.I.Y."mechanic and I felt it was worth the five hours to do it myself. The only hard part was getting the crush collar to start "crushing". Took a four foot cheater bar to get it to start! Other than that, follow the superstallion website instructions and you can't go wrong. If you are driving a 96 then all you will need is a speedo gear to recal your speedometer.

Good luck

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/jfclague/Mustang_Mods.htm
( Jim's mustang mods. Look under "drivetrain for all the articles on gear installs.)

http://www.superstallions.com/tech/drive/gears/gears.html
( this is the article I used)

GEARS!!!

Ray

if your father is sure he can do it then its worth a shot... i guess? I wouldnt do it but i dont know that much about cars. ive done evry other install but that one. but anyays you need a speedcal, i would recommend getting one from partshopper. it will cost aproximately 100 dollars.