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Old Mar 29, 2009 | 01:09 PM
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my friends all have stangs and want to do swaps between our cars. i have stock 3.27's in my sn and the guy with 3.73's wants my gears... why i dont know, but my other friend wants 3.73's in place of his 4.10's on his drag car. so i would end up with a set of 4.10's on my 5spd. i dont do a whole lot of highway driving so it doesnt bug me.
how would you say it feels when you throw those gears in there from a stock standpoint?
also i have a decently built up motor on this car as well, so i'm assuming it should feel pretty fun.
i've never had gear in my cars, i've ended up doing everyone's first mod last on my car.
Old Mar 29, 2009 | 01:15 PM
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If you could hold traction in first gear it would feel like you got rear ended by a tractor trailer. biggest difference you'll notice for the money bar none.
Old Mar 29, 2009 | 01:26 PM
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lol awesome. only reason i'm doing it is cause it's free for me
Old Mar 29, 2009 | 01:32 PM
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Yeah if you can get the gears for free it'll only cost you an installation kit and your time if you do it yourself!
Old Mar 29, 2009 | 01:39 PM
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we're all swapping our diffs, cause we all have suspension we gotta put in like control arms and springs which would require us to pull them anyways so we figured why bother pulling the gears just let them stay in the diff they're in and swap axels and brakes components
Old Mar 29, 2009 | 01:52 PM
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should be a pretty easy swap if your swapping out the whole axle .... and yeah those 4.10s will deff. wake your car up
Old Mar 29, 2009 | 01:55 PM
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i've been putting off my rear spring install till we did these swaps haha my sn has a sick lookin rake right now. i like it
Old Mar 29, 2009 | 01:56 PM
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I'm pretty sure even if you're swapping diffs you'll still need to redo the gear alignment...
Old Mar 29, 2009 | 02:03 PM
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really ... ive swaped out rearends before and not done anything to the internals and never had any problems ... but i may have been just lucky i guess
Old Mar 29, 2009 | 02:07 PM
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you should notice a huge difference going from 3.27's to 4.10's



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