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Originally Posted by vskid3
I figured you would come to that conclusion after I saw the kind of grades you'll be driving on. Maybe with some aeromods and weight reduction you'll be able to stay in 5th.
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Yea haha. And that's what I'm hoping for, I can almost, almost stay in fifth, but just not quite. I'm hoping with a proper grill block, underbelly pan, mud flap delete and repair of my dented hood + gap filling I will be able to, but we will see.
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Originally Posted by California98Civic
Your fourth gear is probably about the RPM/MPH range of a 1997 Civic EX. I drop to fourth in some places and in one place then down to third. No problem. Hill climbed. All I am doing is roughly matching what I used to do on the same hills in fourth of fifth with my old transmission. But with the CX/VX trans swap, I also have access to a much taller fifth when I want it for the flats cruising. Just downshift, you'll be fine on them thar hills. But I agree... don't swap a perfectly good HX tranny unless you have to. I only did the swap because I thought I needed urgent rebuilding in my old DX trans. It could use rebuilding, it turns out, but it was never urgent or necessary. I was miss-diagnosing a friction sound I was hearing.
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You have to understand, it's not just a quick climb, the part of my commute I'm talking about is just around 8 miles.