I went by one of my mechanics house today to let him know a few things I wanted to do with the car. I told him how the car was running since I fixed the broken spring and slightly bent valve in the head and that it's running well, nice and strong but down low it seems to me that for how it is moving through the rpm's, it just doesnt feel like the car is moving as fast to match the rpms. He drove the car and he is a guru, ASE certified jet mechanic and all, he said man " aint nothing wrong with that car ". He asked me what all we did with the swap and I told him. He first said that the 3.55 gears changing to 3.73's I would notice a tremendous difference. I told him that guys on the forums has told me that to go from 3.55s to 3.73 would for the money for the gears and labor really wouldn't be noticable enough to do. He said he didnt think so in his opinion and also said its not bad to change the gears ( but I probably wouldnt wana tackle it especially since I'm not totally positive what if any change I would notice).
After I told him I had the v6 tranny in there, he said well having the v6 tranny in there is more so holding the power transition of everything being matched up than the rear end gearing. He told me to look up the gearing for each gear for each transmission. I looked them up and here was what I found on the phone and hope it's accurate:
V6 T5 94-98 94 GT T5
1st 3.35:1 3.35:1
2nd 1.93:1 1.99:1
3rd 1.29:1 1.33:1
4th 1.00:1 1.00:1
5th 0.73:1 0.68:1
He said from what he feels when driving it is that all the gears seem fine but first. He said 1st gear is only getting up to about 45 mph when changing the gearing in the tranny for first should get up to about 70????????? Thoughts????
He showed me a magazine article that he gets monthyly and it compared a porsche, M4Bmw, and a Vette and it compared the gears 1-5 and the rpm and speed associated with them to prove how important gearing was and how from one car to another the gearing at the rpm levels and the speed was. He said if you guys can find the power curve for each gear and the rpm/speed from the v6 tranny to the v8, then we can compare apples to apples and he could further prove his point. He did say that he believes my only problem is first gear though. After calling a few guys while there, they didnt agree with him so that's why I told him I wanted to get you guys opinion.
2nd question is in regards to suspension. NOt long ago and not many miles ago I had tokico blues shocks and struts put on and also front end work done, all ball joints and bushings, end links. I know i need to change out the rear LCA's and the differential housing bushings in which I have them and just need to get them installed. I currently have Mac LCAs that I've had for years and also Mac uppers. He asked me why i didnt go with air shocks, even the Monroe's would work he said. I said well my situation with the bump I told you guys about I'm convinced changing the arms would help that. He said when he drove it he noticed when getting on it and shifting to 2nd , I think from 2nd to 3rd the car seemed to dip and flattens and he said the car needs to be brought back up some. I told him i think when I change out the arms and bushings Its going to fix all of that , though I didnt really notice the dipping and flattening as he did but I will recheck, but yeah i told him i think the arms will fix that and he thinks it still will do it but I will have to see. First thing I'm going to do is have the arms put on and the differential bushings.
Thoughts on it all fellas.............
After I told him I had the v6 tranny in there, he said well having the v6 tranny in there is more so holding the power transition of everything being matched up than the rear end gearing. He told me to look up the gearing for each gear for each transmission. I looked them up and here was what I found on the phone and hope it's accurate:
V6 T5 94-98 94 GT T5
1st 3.35:1 3.35:1
2nd 1.93:1 1.99:1
3rd 1.29:1 1.33:1
4th 1.00:1 1.00:1
5th 0.73:1 0.68:1
He said from what he feels when driving it is that all the gears seem fine but first. He said 1st gear is only getting up to about 45 mph when changing the gearing in the tranny for first should get up to about 70????????? Thoughts????
He showed me a magazine article that he gets monthyly and it compared a porsche, M4Bmw, and a Vette and it compared the gears 1-5 and the rpm and speed associated with them to prove how important gearing was and how from one car to another the gearing at the rpm levels and the speed was. He said if you guys can find the power curve for each gear and the rpm/speed from the v6 tranny to the v8, then we can compare apples to apples and he could further prove his point. He did say that he believes my only problem is first gear though. After calling a few guys while there, they didnt agree with him so that's why I told him I wanted to get you guys opinion.
2nd question is in regards to suspension. NOt long ago and not many miles ago I had tokico blues shocks and struts put on and also front end work done, all ball joints and bushings, end links. I know i need to change out the rear LCA's and the differential housing bushings in which I have them and just need to get them installed. I currently have Mac LCAs that I've had for years and also Mac uppers. He asked me why i didnt go with air shocks, even the Monroe's would work he said. I said well my situation with the bump I told you guys about I'm convinced changing the arms would help that. He said when he drove it he noticed when getting on it and shifting to 2nd , I think from 2nd to 3rd the car seemed to dip and flattens and he said the car needs to be brought back up some. I told him i think when I change out the arms and bushings Its going to fix all of that , though I didnt really notice the dipping and flattening as he did but I will recheck, but yeah i told him i think the arms will fix that and he thinks it still will do it but I will have to see. First thing I'm going to do is have the arms put on and the differential bushings.
Thoughts on it all fellas.............
