Thanks Cody, I will let him know. It sounded to me by his description that the clutch was slipping, but I thought it was just him, as like I said he knew NOTHING about his car.

And yeah, I was in the Stang.

 

Cody you should go to INTENSE-Racing.com, they've got all sorts of performance stuff for the cobalts. I was at Intense Drag Days, and they had several Cobalts running low 13's out there.

 

You correct and not correct at the same time. True gears do help with acceleration (the taller you go) BUT they do add power, in a sense. Do that actually "add" power no, BUT multply your pre-existing torque. Hence the code name "torque multiplication" or "torque multiplier" So in a sense it does "add" power.

If you go to a dyno with stock gearing (say 3.08) then throw in some 3.73's or 4.10's your RWTQ will but much higher.

 

You should not see any TQ increase on a dyno from your gears.

At least I did not see any difference. Nor has comparing several different peoples dynos with different gearsets but the same basic power mods shown this.

Acutally, the higher the gear ratio, the slightly low you will dyno. I have seen people loose a few RWHP after a gear swap.

 

He probably meant that after the dyno it showed the stock Cobalt SS was closer to 235 hp at the crank.

And I can believe that. I find it hard to believe that adding the supercharger on that car only added like 40-45 hp too.
And with the numbers (trap speeds) the Cobalt SS is producing, it's surely putting out more than the 205 hp Chevy
advertises.
235-240 crank HP seems more correct.

 

You've seen peoples Torque go down after a gear swap? Are you sure they didn't go down in gearing? And you should see more torque at a lower RPM. That's the point of them. Hence the increased acceleration. They do kill top end though. That's why you might have seen the HP go down. But all horsepower is, is a number created from taking torque, gearing, and a few other things multiplied and divided together. Not sure of the exact equation but something like that.

 

Good kill Stan!
Now, the way I understand how gears work is like what was mentioned already. They simply multiply the existing torque that the engine produces. Basically, if you swap your stock gears out for say 3.73's then the gears simply make it easier for the torque that your engine produces to get the car rolling... gets it off the line quicker and gets you into the higher revs quicker. I know there are some more complex mathematical equations that are actually involved though.

 

 

cody , u should go to straponapiar.com/coboltsaregay/slow/imdrunk/redlinesmurkthatslowbolt

 

I hope you know that wasn't really cody. [sm=bustedsign.gif][sm=icon_rofl.gif]