About 12 years ago(before I knew of Dary8l and AA trans), I had Weddle rebuild my tranny and put a 4.57 rear end in it and a slightly taller 4th gear. Don't think it was the .77, maybe the next notch up. I had and still am driving a Boston Bob"modified" 2.1(ported heads and bigger valves) so I thought it could handle the longer gearing. Things are fine for the most part, but there is a 1400 RPM drop from the stock 3rd to the longer 4th and that does involve more shifting on hills. In hindsight, I should have put in a longer 3rd gear too; something that would get me to the power band of the engine at 50-65 mph for passing folks slower than me on 2 lane roads. With an impending(read less than 10 years down the road) Subaru implant, I will change things or else graft the subie trans to the Vanagon and bite the bullet once. IT is a bit slower off the stop as well, but I don't care about that. Same clutch for the last 14 years, so it's not eating that up.......YMMV DM&FS ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan N" <dn92610@GMAIL.COM> To: "vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM" <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Thursday, September 3, 2015 1:35:05 PM Subject: regearing a manual trans hi all, I understand the concept of regearing the trans with a stronger engine, more HP (conversions etc..) but what about regearing the trans and using the plain old 2.1 WBX? any benefit? any idea? thanks dan |
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