Well the fedex truck from Australia showed up at my door this morning..... the plan for these is to try them out in my autox car first then perform the same swap (with adjustments if required) into the SC trans for use behind the MFI 3.2. This new 2.00 2nd and 1.381 3rd will give me the same 1/2/3 ratios as the mythical SC/RS trans with a slightly taller 4th and 5th. Co-incidentally, it's not that far off the 2.7RS gearing.
The peakier motor will like shorter gears and by all accounts will make either car a lot more fun to drive. In particular the autox car spends 95% of it's time (when competing) in 2nd gear. Driving around on the street I find I have no use for a 3rd gear that will take me to 100mph!!!
The gear chart is really interesting to look at and compare. The 3rd to 4th upshift in these cars is wicked - keeps you right in the meat of the powerband and feels like a million bucks. But of course how often do you make that shift at or near redline? Practically never. If you do, you must have different law enforcement than I'm used to.
So my gearing steals a whole bunch of that fun and gives it to the 1/2 and 2/3 shift which lets face it, you use a heck of a lot more often. Can't wait to try it!
