Can you change gear ratio's ?

[Razor_nl]

I was quite surprised when I couldn't find any good thread about this.

I was wondering, is it possible to change the gear ratio's on a 2G FWD?
The reason I'm asking this is because I have had other cars which made more speed at less rpm and I liked this a LOT.
I care most for 1st and 2nd and 5th gear. 1st and 2nd for acceleration, now I really have the feeling I'm making a lot of rpm but not gaining any real speed. And 5th gear for highway cruising/ fuel saving. I'm now driving ~3500rpm at (legal) highway speed and I would love to see this go down somewhere to ~3000. I allready took a larger size tires but this didn't make a noticable change.
I know it's not a smart idea to change just a few gears because they will be too close or too far from each other, so then a change to all gears.

At the moment I have almost 300hp and I can hit the rev limiter in 5th. I will go over 300hp for sure in a short period of time with some extra incoming mods, so that's not the problem at all.

So can you guys give any information about this? Aftermarket products, trannies (or parts) from other cars, or anything else? Or maybe reasons why this can't be done (since I haven't seen it done before yet)

Thanks!

 

[T is for TURBO]

Holy hell!!!! Rev limiter in 5th??? my god i hope you're on the autobhan or a track..that's got to be hauling ass...

Thank you! I was hoping at least one person would have noticed that.

I really don't think the fact that you are hitting the rev limiter in 5th is justification for a taller fifth get seeing as your "hauling ass". But I do agree with you on the fuel milage part.

 

[Razor_nl]

My wish for a taller 5th has NOTHING to do with me hitting the rev limiter. I did it once to calm my curiosity down, I'll probably never do this again

 

[laserspeeddemon]

WOW!!! All kinds of wrong information in this thread.

First, you can make custom gears, you just got to find a REALLY professional shop to this. Greg Collier worked with RRE and TRE to make a custom gear set for his race-spec laser. The diff only holds the the final gear, not all the gears. If you want to change that, it will change your entire gear set ration without having to change any of the other gears. If you want more time in 1st gear then go with TRE or ShepTrans to install a GVR4 or EVO IIII 1st gear I know this works with AWD, not sure about FW, but I do know the make a Custom 5th gear.

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On a side note I have topped out my Talon 5th gear, rev limited but this was in Germany A6. Unspeed limited it was exilerhating. But I realize how stupid that was. One small, peice of debris on the road would have certain death in the event of a blow out.
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