Cascade Crew

Danked · Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 12:47 am Post subject:

would someone know the gear ratio on my camaro? if these are smaller gears than maybe we can work something out. i want a little lower, i know worse gas mileage, but i wanna be able to burn out from just flooring it

LB985IROC · Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 3:26 am Post subject:

manual 3.42 ---- 3.23 auto

Magman · Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 9:14 am Post subject:

Xophertony, Yeah youre right, 3.27. I had to go look it up, thanks.

Danked, You'll ned to find out what your gear ratio is first. You'll want to go numerically higher, ie.. 3.27 to 3.70. The best way to do it is to count the teeth on ring and pinion. Probably not practical if youre driving it around. There's another way to jack it, mark the driveshaft and tire and count revolutions, something like that.

Be cautious of the expense though, my tranny shop charged me close to $400.00 in labor to swap gears from 3.27 to 3.70, and I even supplied the gears and rebuild kit!

Dewey316 · Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 9:20 am Post subject:

Danked, being a V6 91, I would be pretty sure in saying, these gears won't fit your car. You will have a 10bolt in your car. These gears for for the BW 9bolt.

Quasi-Traction · Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 1:02 pm Post subject:

You probably have either 3.08's or 3.23's. Possibly 3.42's if its a 5 speed car, but the last year that I know of GM factory installing 3.42's on 5 sp V6 cars was 1984/1985 (whatever the last year the carbed 2.8L was offered). After that everything got 3.23's for the 5 speed cars.

Danked · Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 2:17 pm Post subject:

gah damnit, and i have a auto

aaron_sK · Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 3:08 pm Post subject:

Actually. 3.23 with a 700R4 isn't bad. That's going to give you a ratio of 10 or so out of the hole. The problem ain't the gears, it's this: LH0 V6 8.5:1 3.1 (191) hp140@4400 tq180@3600

blue89 · Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 7:41 am Post subject:

I don't see anything wrong with those numbers Laughing

aaron_sK · Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 9:46 am Post subject:

Have you ever dynoed that 2.8? I'd like to see some numbers on a punched 6 revving that high. Thumbs up

Danked · Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 1:42 pm Post subject:

heh ill dyno my maro when i get it back

aaron_sK · Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 3:10 pm Post subject:

Actually, I was asking blue89, since I have a pretty good idea what a stock 3.1 will dyno at. However I've never seen the numbers on that small of a bored V6 before, so I was kinda interested.

blue89 · Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 8:48 am Post subject:

ya, we'll see. I have to get the something fixed tho. It hits a wall at 6000rpm. Maybe its fuel related since there isn't a software limit. Back to gears....

The V6's pretty much all came with 3.42 opens as far as I know. So for a V6 car to go from 3.42 to 3.27 would be a bad idea. Go up in ratio. But for a V8 car with a stock 2.72, it would be a great improvement!

Danked · Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 2:57 pm Post subject:

i know u were speaking to him, i just wanna see if my camaro actually runs 140hp. doesnt feel like it.

aaron_sK · Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 3:12 pm Post subject:

Of course not. People don't think about it, but not maintaining your engine destroys any performance.

I'm gonna leave this hijack be after this.