What's the highest rear end ratio availible for our cars?
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What's the highest rear end ratio availible for our cars?
So I've been pondering about this for a while... All the calculators tell me the top speed for each gear in our Miatas, yadda yadda.
Mine are... Different. From both 4.10 and 4.30.
Top speed of mine (GPS confirmed) are:
1st: ~30
2nd: ~50
3rd: 80 (Almost exactly)
4th: 100 (Again, almost exactly)
5th: Dunno, haven't got it there yet.
Calculators and even stuff from m.net show the top speeds of each gear to be higher, and significantly higher when you get into 3rd and 4th.
Sorry if this is a retarded thread, if I'm missing something someone please tell me.
Any thoughts?
EDIT: I'm on stock tires (185-60-14). '96, so it should have a 4.10.
Mine are... Different. From both 4.10 and 4.30.
Top speed of mine (GPS confirmed) are:
1st: ~30
2nd: ~50
3rd: 80 (Almost exactly)
4th: 100 (Again, almost exactly)
5th: Dunno, haven't got it there yet.
Calculators and even stuff from m.net show the top speeds of each gear to be higher, and significantly higher when you get into 3rd and 4th.
Sorry if this is a retarded thread, if I'm missing something someone please tell me.
Any thoughts?
EDIT: I'm on stock tires (185-60-14). '96, so it should have a 4.10.
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A 3.9 R&P was standard with all 6-speed equipped Miatas. Apart from 4.10 and 4.30, that's the only other ratio that was stock on a Miata in the US.
3.636 R&Ps were never standard on the Miata, but were found on all '79-'82 Mazda 626s, and are available from Mazdacomp. They are not particularly common, but some folks do retrofit them. (I've got a set sitting on the shelf.)
A more comprehensive listing: http://solomiata.com/RingandPinion.html
Which tires are you running, specifically?
3.636 R&Ps were never standard on the Miata, but were found on all '79-'82 Mazda 626s, and are available from Mazdacomp. They are not particularly common, but some folks do retrofit them. (I've got a set sitting on the shelf.)
A more comprehensive listing: http://solomiata.com/RingandPinion.html
Which tires are you running, specifically?
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A 3.9 R&P was standard with all 6-speed equipped Miatas. Apart from 4.10 and 4.30, that's the only other ratio that was stock on a Miata in the US.
3.636 R&Ps were never standard on the Miata, but were found on all '79-'82 Mazda 626s, and are available from Mazdacomp. They are not particularly common, but some folks do retrofit them. (I've got a set sitting on the shelf.)
A more comprehensive listing: http://solomiata.com/RingandPinion.html
Which tires are you running, specifically?
3.636 R&Ps were never standard on the Miata, but were found on all '79-'82 Mazda 626s, and are available from Mazdacomp. They are not particularly common, but some folks do retrofit them. (I've got a set sitting on the shelf.)
A more comprehensive listing: http://solomiata.com/RingandPinion.html
Which tires are you running, specifically?
Tires are Altimax HP all-seasons in 185-60-14.
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So, here's the bad news. When I run the numbers for your quoted top speeds and tire, I get an RPM spread of roughly 750 highest to lowest, assuming a 22.7" tire and a 4.10 R&P.
That's more than 10% measurement error.
If this is really killing you, jack up the rear end, mark the tires with chalk, put the transmission into 4th (which is 1:1), and spin the crank over 4.1 times by hand.
Or just have a drink and assume that some fool didn't decide to tear apart the diff in your car and install a rock-crawler gearset into it.
That's more than 10% measurement error.
If this is really killing you, jack up the rear end, mark the tires with chalk, put the transmission into 4th (which is 1:1), and spin the crank over 4.1 times by hand.
Or just have a drink and assume that some fool didn't decide to tear apart the diff in your car and install a rock-crawler gearset into it.
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Just Forza 3'd my car, once with a 4.10 and once with a 4.44. The 4.44 was DEAD ON what my car does. Exactly. 100%. And yes, I know that Forza is over 9,000% accurate.
So, ITT: ****.
So, ITT: ****.
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It's not a 4.3. 4.3 still reads too high in each gear. By a significant amount.
I could be short shifting. I'll take a log and see.
EDIT: Hmm, very possible it's a 4.3 I guess. I'll double check.
I could be short shifting. I'll take a log and see.
EDIT: Hmm, very possible it's a 4.3 I guess. I'll double check.
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i don't know if this has been tried yet. but i'm told the rear carrier in the s2000 is the same as he mazda speed miata and the mazda speed miata is interchangable. This one is made by mazda and does fit he s2000 so it might work. mazda designed that diff for the honda as well.
i don't know if this has been tried yet. but i'm told the rear carrier in the s2000 is the same as he mazda speed miata and the mazda speed miata is interchangable. This one is made by mazda and does fit he s2000 so it might work. mazda designed that diff for the honda as well.
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Well, he says in the first post that he did use a GPS, though my experience mirror's Olderguy's- when I installed a 4.10 into my '92, without changing the speedo pickup gear, the speedometer went from being quite optimistic to being accurate to within about a needlewidth at 70 (again GPS-verified.)
And, as Chriscar suggests, so do I concur- with an addendum: the stock tachometer isn't exactly NIST-traceable either. You'll want to reference your logger to get an accurate RPM indication.
.....Or, just do what I said in the first place and measure it directly. In fact, you don't even need to muck about with the engine and tranny now that I'm thinking more clearly. Put it in neutral and just rotate the propshaft by hand while observing a reference mark on the diff input flange.
And, as Chriscar suggests, so do I concur- with an addendum: the stock tachometer isn't exactly NIST-traceable either. You'll want to reference your logger to get an accurate RPM indication.
.....Or, just do what I said in the first place and measure it directly. In fact, you don't even need to muck about with the engine and tranny now that I'm thinking more clearly. Put it in neutral and just rotate the propshaft by hand while observing a reference mark on the diff input flange.
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Again I say, I bet $20 it's just a 4.3. No way a tack is accurate enough to tell a 4.3 from a 4.44, plus there is a very slim chance it is a 4.44 and not a 4.3, so I'm going with a logical assumption that it's a 4.3.
EDIT: I see you are saying these speeds are GPS confirmed? What is the history on the car. I just have a hard time believing the gears would have been changed to a less standard one than the 4.1 or 4.3, like a 4.44 or 4.8.
Your top speeds also look strange. What other Mazda 5 speeds fit the Miata, or what are the chances it's a modified trans using some other gears? Mostly 3rd gear looks too low to match the others.
EDIT: I see you are saying these speeds are GPS confirmed? What is the history on the car. I just have a hard time believing the gears would have been changed to a less standard one than the 4.1 or 4.3, like a 4.44 or 4.8.
Your top speeds also look strange. What other Mazda 5 speeds fit the Miata, or what are the chances it's a modified trans using some other gears? Mostly 3rd gear looks too low to match the others.
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