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Old 08-05-2008, 02:18 PM   #10 (permalink)
BrianAbington
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I read an article about someone building an early 90's Nissan SE-R for road racing using a stock transmission...but he did some research and found that there were several gear ratios offered through out the run of the car...and picked all the individual gears that would give him the best performance.

Now with my car...the research I've done has shown that the 4spd actualy had a bit better economy. (5spd probably was closer ratios) I'm wondering if I can build a frankenstein tranny that would be a 5spd...but be the most economical gears from the 4spd 5spd and a neon 5spd as you mentioned...with the lowest 5th gear/final drive that I can find.

I'll give the neutral coasting a try and let yall know how it goes.
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