Gear Ratios

[Puffy]

i need some gear ratios for a Mustang SVT Cobra R , don't know if it will chantge anything but i know of some games where ratios is the difference between eating dust or kicking some ass

 

[Zero]

I usually keep the stock gear ratios, but move the gear ratio more towards wide to get less wheel spin off a turn and overall greater speed with less acceleration.

 

[troy1]

sporty is lower top speed but more acceration, wide is more top speed but lower accel.

 

[Puffy]

i'll go with troy on this one, accel is alweys more important when ur racing exept on the test course

 

[Sertsa]

Here's an easy, quick way to do it using the "auto" ratio setting. (You can go deeper into this, of course, if you want shorter lower and longer upper gears, etc, but this way's pretty straight forward, I think).

When you're in a race, go to qualifying and pay attention to the gears, especially in the longest stright. Ideally, your car should hit its peak in top gear shortly before you begin breaking after the longest straight. This way, you're making full use of the engine's full range on a given course. So, of course, Monaco will be extremely short, while the Test Course will be very wide.

You can adjust this a bit, of course, given the track. If, say, you wanted to favor acceleration on all SS11's corners, you might shorten the gears so you're bumping the limiter sooner on the long straight.

(You can also make the top gear a bit longer, too, if you want. The risk in doing that is having the revs drop too far when changing from, say, 5th to 6th. If you want to go that route, take a look at the link Talentless posted in the other thread).

 

[rjensen11]

I don't know why, but with the Mustang and the Camero Race Car, I accelerated faster with the wide transmission than with the short. And no, I didn't hold down on the accelerator all the way, I tried the gradual method, and I used Test Course for the 400m and the 1000m acceleration tests...