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Originally posted by strawmyers:
What do you feel is an acceptable % increase between gears and tires?

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I was not trying to be contencious. Nor was I trying to push my ideas at the expense of anyone else's.

Now that the disclaimer is out of the way...

What is considered as acceptable has lots of parts. More than just the composite effect of gears/tires. If all you want to do is you want to put your engine back into its stock power band, then matching tires to gears is ideal. But, if you are driving an anemic 2.6L, you probably would benefit from pushing the power band up a bit.

As you pointed out, the stock power band is a function of the stock gearing. The increase in RPMs will be very much dependant upon what gear ratio you started with.

Those who are pushing the 200hp mark with the 3.2 and 3.5's will not need (or benefit much) from having gears that out-pace the increase in tire size. Add in a auto or manual transmission and the effects change again.

Enough beating around the bush. My purpose of wanting something lower than 5.13 is only for the options it opens up. 5.13 would be great if that is what they decide to do, but if they are open to doing lower gears the it is worth us weighting all the options.

Lower is better and by the time you are ready to step into the 5.xx ratios, you have decided that the primary purpose of you rig is to wheel. I would take a bit lower top MPH (the engine will wind out sooner) for a low as possible crawl ratio.

Ideally, as others have mentioned, whatever it ends up to be, it might as well match one of the other ratios (Dana, Toyota, ect).

Michael

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