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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MustangChris" data-source="post: 645216" data-attributes="member: 10830">i ran a MASSIVE slick in my car.  i ran a faster ET with a slower MPH.what he is saying is not *WRONG*... hes just *WRONG* in the fact that he stated his comment in a blanket-format."gears will NOT improve et.. at all.."there are *rare* occations where this is true... but "not imporoving et *AT ALL*" is incorrect.many boosted cars gain so little from a gear swap, that it is hardly worth swaping ratios.but to put all cars in the same catagory and to say that a gear swap wont help ET on any of them, this is false.i ran a 15.5 in my car with full bolt ons and 4.10s....i had a friend who ran a 16.1 in a full bolt on -plus PI Swap- with stock gears.after he went with 3.73s he ran a 15.7 (ish?)and after a tune he ran a 14.. .. . something.anyways, he owns a WS6 now. lol.fact is:gears will *PROBABLY* help atrain.look at the extreams of the argument:if it didnt help at all, we would all be running with 1.094:1 ratios...if it was a fix-all, we would all be running with 12.1389:1 ratios...there is a happy median, and 3.73s/4.10s tend to be the choice for most 8.8 mustang drivers who want performance.</blockquote>