. . . while talking about gears. . . whatgears shouldbe installed for a daily-driver with very mild upgrades and a C4- freeway driving, etc.

 

3.27 or 3.55

 

nothing over 3.50 for the highway unless you don't care about gas or you have an over drive

 

i am tellin you you will get better results from your heads thats where youmake most of your power i just happened to get a good deal on mine cause the po didn;t get hardened seats installed so i paid 4.95 for the machine setup to get the larger valve i work at an auto parts store so i ordered the vavles they weren too expensive but it was 335 to get both of my heads redon to stock w/o the seats but they were magnafluxed and everything plus the polishing and biger vlaves for 385 to be exact fyi do your own porting saves money and there are plenty of articles on how to do it i mean come on why do you think nascar heads are so damn expensive 50K+ for a set of heads