What's your Enzo's gearing ratios?

[McZachenF1138]

I really wasn't too sure if this should be in the Tuning Forum section of GTP or not. But I guess it's sort of too late anyway.

So, basically what I'm asking is what are the individual gear settings you have, as well as the final drive gear and Top Speed numbers?

If anyone is interested, mine is:

1st: 3.800
2nd: 2.500 @ 50 mph --- 50 mph
3rd: 1.800 @ 75 mph --- 25 mph
4th: 1.350 @ 105 mph --- 30 mph
5th: 1.035 @ 140 mph --- 35 mph
6th: 0.750 @ 180 mph --- 40 mph
Final Gear: 4.000
Top Speed: 211 mph/340 kph
The actual top speed it says in the upper right corner is 265 mph/426 kph.

Almost all of my cars have their gearing in a similar pattern. The reference lines fan out with the higher gears. This way I have the lower gears for acceleration and the higher gears for speed.
So as you can see with the speed difference between gears in bold, they increase steadily. I don't really know how to explain it any better. >.<

Also, does anyone else share the same philosophy when gearing their cars?

 

[Techy]

This thread deals quite a bit on tuning, so it belongs in the Tuning Forum. But I'll share my response anyways.
I'm a bit new to gear tuning, so I don't exactly follow a philosophy yet. But a brief, small one follows yours: Have the starting gears for acceleration & the higher gears for top speed. But on some occasions I would favor only either of them when tuning.

 

[Highlandor]

As Elitedriver pointed out - this is a tuning question because you are 'tining' the gear ratio's, so ideally should be in tuning forum.

With regard to your point, I tune my cars the opposite way.

1st / 2nd / 3rd gears are usually maxed out, maybe 3rd is sometimes slightly less.

4th / 5th / 6th are close ratio, so 6th gear is shortened as much as possible and 4th & 5th are then amended to have even space between them.

So the graphic for the gears has large gaps between the first 3 gears, progressively getting shorter as you go up the gears.

Then I just change the final drive according to what track I'm on, leaving the gears always spaced / set how I like.

The reason I have the gears like this is to reduce wheelspin in lower gears and increase acceleration in higher gears.

Most of the cars I race though are road cars 530pp or less on sports tyres and 585pp or less on racing hard, all driving aids off, so grip / traction can be an issue with RWD cars sometimes and this type of gearing can help.