I plan on running the same RPM range as every one else, but just using all of four gears.
If a lower ratio is so great, then get a 1.83 gear and just use 1st and 2nd gear.
Or better yet, just run a straight drive 1:1 and just use one gear the whole track, like a rail car.
I'm sure you can get stupid in either direction.
My question may be:
What is the best number of gears for a 10-9sec car with an automatic? Not one or two obviously. Three is what 99% run, I guess. Why not four? We already have it, and it's spinning, ready to go. Gear it up for a 3-4 shift just after the eighth, and then run thru OD. Shifting at the same RPMs as everyone else, just sooner in time compaired to a "normal" geared car using 3 gears.
So, some of you thing by shortning the actual time spent in each gear, we are loosing some torque usage, or something like that? Like, the motor can't rev-up that fast?I don't feel that happening. Faster cars spend much less time in each gear but, seems to work for them. I am refering to low nine sec TRs, etc.
I too am aiming for 10.5 and better next year.