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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard
No, I've got the stock gearing all around and it is pretty bad. I can use 5th at ~30MPH on flat ground, so at highway speeds it is ridonkulous. I am still on the original clutch (at ~163K) so I don't know if I will be able to justify a final drive swap. Both 4th and 5th are "overdrive" gears but with a 4.31:1 final drive, it is wasted.
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I have the same gearsets, with a 1ZZ-FE and slightly less tall tires, for a 3500rpm cruise, so stop complaining :P
I was talking about the 5th gearset though, it's a 0.815, and the Echo should have the same one. You would want to find a Corolla to get the 0.725, or buy the new OEM one for 265 dollars. I don't know if the transmission is a direct swap between the two cars though, if you can pick up a junkyard one for less than 300 bucks then you'd be in good shape, but I think used trannys go for more like 700.
In fact I'm not even sure if C56 and C150s have interchangable gearsets, but seeing how the ratios are exactly the same I would guess that they do. All I know is that the bellhousings are shared between C5x and C6x, but not C150 and C160.