A New Era Has Begun....4.10 gears installed
03-07-2012, 11:31 PM
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A New Era Has Begun....4.10 gears installed
Hey, you know how it feels when your engine bogs down at low RPM? Well, if you had some 4.10 gears you wouldn't know. The difference from the stock 3.27 ratio on my 2002 GT is amazing. It turned my cruiser from a car that could get some decent wheelspin if I dropped the clutch at about 3000 rpm into a tire shredding monster that can spin the wheels at the drop of a gas pedal any time in first gear. Even if I'm moving and the clutch is all the way out, if I punch it in first, the wheels will start spinning. And these aren't skinny tires, I'm running 275's. Not that you stay in first gear that much, second gear is the parking lot gear, and I use 5th a lot more. I now have a growing compulsion to get this car to the dragstrip to see what it can do.
Would I recommend this mod?? Definitely yes, if, like me, you only drive a few miles a day to work and back and never have to do any highway traveling. Otherwise, you might want 3.73's. It is still possible to drive normally without wheelspin, but you shift a lot quicker through the gears to 4th pretty quick and then to 5th at anything over 30 or 35 mph.
Update on MGW shifter - it took about 2 days to get used to it and now it feels perfectly normal.
Would I recommend this mod?? Definitely yes, if, like me, you only drive a few miles a day to work and back and never have to do any highway traveling. Otherwise, you might want 3.73's. It is still possible to drive normally without wheelspin, but you shift a lot quicker through the gears to 4th pretty quick and then to 5th at anything over 30 or 35 mph.
Update on MGW shifter - it took about 2 days to get used to it and now it feels perfectly normal.
03-07-2012, 11:43 PM
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Boy, when you explain it like that, makes me want it hardcore now...lol Iv'e had those gears in my shopping cart about 40 times at AM. ALWAYS talk myself out of it for some stupid reason or another.
Did you install yourself? Go with a bearing kit?
Sounds like it made the car even more fun...
Did you install yourself? Go with a bearing kit?
Sounds like it made the car even more fun...
03-08-2012, 12:29 AM
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Hey, you know how it feels when your engine bogs down at low RPM? Well, if you had some 4.10 gears you wouldn't know. The difference from the stock 3.27 ratio on my 2002 GT is amazing. It turned my cruiser from a car that could get some decent wheelspin if I dropped the clutch at about 3000 rpm into a tire shredding monster that can spin the wheels at the drop of a gas pedal any time in first gear. Even if I'm moving and the clutch is all the way out, if I punch it in first, the wheels will start spinning. And these aren't skinny tires, I'm running 275's. Not that you stay in first gear that much, second gear is the parking lot gear, and I use 5th a lot more. I now have a growing compulsion to get this car to the dragstrip to see what it can do.
Would I recommend this mod?? Definitely yes, if, like me, you only drive a few miles a day to work and back and never have to do any highway traveling. Otherwise, you might want 3.73's. It is still possible to drive normally without wheelspin, but you shift a lot quicker through the gears to 4th pretty quick and then to 5th at anything over 30 or 35 mph.
Update on MGW shifter - it took about 2 days to get used to it and now it feels perfectly normal.
Would I recommend this mod?? Definitely yes, if, like me, you only drive a few miles a day to work and back and never have to do any highway traveling. Otherwise, you might want 3.73's. It is still possible to drive normally without wheelspin, but you shift a lot quicker through the gears to 4th pretty quick and then to 5th at anything over 30 or 35 mph.
Update on MGW shifter - it took about 2 days to get used to it and now it feels perfectly normal.
03-08-2012, 05:50 AM
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Hey, you know how it feels when your engine bogs down at low RPM? Well, if you had some 4.10 gears you wouldn't know. The difference from the stock 3.27 ratio on my 2002 GT is amazing. It turned my cruiser from a car that could get some decent wheelspin if I dropped the clutch at about 3000 rpm into a tire shredding monster that can spin the wheels at the drop of a gas pedal any time in first gear. Even if I'm moving and the clutch is all the way out, if I punch it in first, the wheels will start spinning. And these aren't skinny tires, I'm running 275's. Not that you stay in first gear that much, second gear is the parking lot gear, and I use 5th a lot more. I now have a growing compulsion to get this car to the dragstrip to see what it can do.
Would I recommend this mod?? Definitely yes, if, like me, you only drive a few miles a day to work and back and never have to do any highway traveling. Otherwise, you might want 3.73's. It is still possible to drive normally without wheelspin, but you shift a lot quicker through the gears to 4th pretty quick and then to 5th at anything over 30 or 35 mph.
Update on MGW shifter - it took about 2 days to get used to it and now it feels perfectly normal.
Would I recommend this mod?? Definitely yes, if, like me, you only drive a few miles a day to work and back and never have to do any highway traveling. Otherwise, you might want 3.73's. It is still possible to drive normally without wheelspin, but you shift a lot quicker through the gears to 4th pretty quick and then to 5th at anything over 30 or 35 mph.
Update on MGW shifter - it took about 2 days to get used to it and now it feels perfectly normal.
03-08-2012, 09:58 AM
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Thats what I was about to ask when I read the first part of your post. But you nailed it you have a higher redline than the 2v so you shouldnt run out of gear.
03-08-2012, 10:29 AM
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My mechanic installed it, differentials are not something I would want to work on. Cost was $447 for labor and some additional parts (he said my back rotors were toast so he replaced those and the pads). FRPP gears cost $143, installation kit with Koyo bearings was $53, both on ebay.
03-08-2012, 10:33 AM
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that would probably be better for the street, but 3.73's are not exactly a close substitute for 4.10's. Just looking at the numbers they seem close, but with 3.73's you only get about 55% of the torque multiplication increase that you would get from 4.10's, over a stock 3.27 rear.
03-08-2012, 10:36 AM
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PS - no supercharger, this engine is bone stock, but it does run good for having 140K miles. this could be my last mod on this car, the next time I get a notion I'll probably get another car and MAYBE let my daughter have this one in a couple of years, unless I blow this engine and have to rebuild it.