You can if you want your first gear to be useless or have to run DRs all the time. Its stupid if you ask me. The reason people install gears is to make up the difference in lack of torque on small cubic inch engines. With the KB or a turbo, you will be putting down a lot of torque and will not need gears. Well, the turbo is a whole other story because they like load on the engine. That is for a different thread though

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