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Originally Posted by serialk11r
Yea, you're already at 1.6L which is pretty small, 1.5 won't be worth the effort unless you need a new motor for some reason, and your gears aren't that bad. Your car profile says it's manual transmission, so I'd just work on driving technique and some light aeromodding, unless gear swapping is really easy and cheap. 2500rpm at 55...I'm jealous! I'm turning 3000, with a 1.8 too  For my car at least, 5th gear swap isn't very popular because the 11% rev reduction doesn't add up to fuel savings that quickly and it costs 230 in parts to do alone. Swapping to a 6 speed makes a little more sense because at least you have improved acceleration and more choice of gears for around town. Don't worry about the hills, if you need to go down a gear just be sure to keep the load relatively high. You might discover that you don't need more power at all to stay in top gear! Ideally we'd all have super tall gears and forced induction but that costs money, so we just have to accept the loss of power.
65mph is honestly pretty fast already and you're using A/C, I think your gas mileage is quite respectable. I always go 50 if I can get away with driving that slow. |
you cant sell off your parts after the swap? i know the ex trans is wanted by the ricer crowd, so i plan on just trading with someone, all i'm out is a little time, and my clutch, might as well while its open, also the ac is a must for me, black car, and the windows dont work lol, at 65 i already have truckers running me over, i'm a little scared to go slower