Thread: how to make a lil more h.p.

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Originally posted by riverhorse59
Dave , I was thinking something simular to JS Racing. Maybe he was running out of cam and or motor. It's no use running 4.88s or 5.13s unless you have enough motor to pull all the way thru the quarter mile.
I have seen a lot of people run too much gear with a short rod 400 small block chevy. Then they wake up and find out the more gear they take out the quicker they run. I have a friend that had a 400 in a camaro. He started out with 4.56s and backed up one step at a time all the way back to 3.36s and got quicker with each gear change.
If you have an all out race setup this may not apply,but if you're dealing with a street setup you would be suprised how many times it does.

Well actually, very light race cars with very good torque, start to need less gear, like a street car. It's funny, I've heard all my life that you need tall gears and an eight inch convertor like the real race cars do to go really fast. Now that I get there I find out thats good up to a point, then you go back the other way, 9 inch convertor and less gear.

Some how I don't think "running our of motor" is why I changed. LOL