LX 5.0

I'm all for tweaking my car out. Sounds like you know you ****... What the deal with top end speed with 3:73?? I have herd less and more.. My knowledge is now 5 gear will have a powerband so whats the verdict with my mods?

luckythirteen13

lower gears and more power will help the car in 5th gear but if you run lower gears, your top speed will drop

LX 5.0

Ok. what gears do you recommend? and??

lookinforastang

go with 3.79's

a stock 5.0 fox can hit 140mph but i wouldnt do it

88BlueGT

3.79's ???

93BlackNotch

My coupe with 3.55's will hit 130 in 4th gear around 5200rpm's......

gspfunk

It's a 5 speed, right? Go w/ 3.55's or 3.73's. The lower the gear (numerically higher), the lower your top end will be b/c your rpms will increase at lower speeds. If you're looking for some top end speed, I wouldn't go above 3.55's.

ZachW04Stang

All aod automatics have a governer in the tail shaft of the transmission. I don't see how its possible for a 5 speed to have a governer, they probably have fuel cutoff point or spark cutoff.

rmodel65

the gov in the tailshaft has to do with transmission funcition not governing speed!

speakerman86

being that I am in the process of building a stang that might have an aod auto, how would one go about disabling that govener?