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<blockquote data-quote="ANGREY" data-source="post: 16456877" data-attributes="member: 188865"><p>Firstly, yes, I use the hell out of 6th gear.</p><p></p><p>1) Cruising at 75mph in a GT350 feels wrong. Like The Rock wearing skinny jeans and a scarf wrong. Not only because there's people in all manner of grocery getter and shit boxes that will be flying by, but the car just looks at me and says "really, all this and you're going to drive 75?"</p><p></p><p>2) I have 4.09's so cruising at my preferred safe (and legal) speed tends to make phone calls impossible and long trips exhausting on my ears. I have full ARH from headers to tips, which is wonderful, but at pedestrian RPM's it's actually about as quiet as stock "normal" mode and anything above 2500 starts to begin "screaming American Eagles of Oblivion coming to takeover your town."</p><p></p><p>Before I pulled the trigger on a Magnum XL swap, I had researched and no one was (at the time) upgrading the 3160. One of my goals was to swap the 6th out for a .50 ratio. Which is what I did in my Magnum build. So now, with R spec tire height and 4.09s, my 6th gear cruising will accomplish both desires.</p><p></p><p>it'll allow me to cruise at 2k rpms at 77 mph. 2500 rpms is 96mph. So cruising at 80mph is like a cool 2100 rpms. Nice and purring and capable of having a phone call, while still not getting blown off the road by Ricky and his 5 kids and they're Uhaul truck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ANGREY, post: 16456877, member: 188865"] Firstly, yes, I use the hell out of 6th gear. 1) Cruising at 75mph in a GT350 feels wrong. Like The Rock wearing skinny jeans and a scarf wrong. Not only because there's people in all manner of grocery getter and shit boxes that will be flying by, but the car just looks at me and says "really, all this and you're going to drive 75?" 2) I have 4.09's so cruising at my preferred safe (and legal) speed tends to make phone calls impossible and long trips exhausting on my ears. I have full ARH from headers to tips, which is wonderful, but at pedestrian RPM's it's actually about as quiet as stock "normal" mode and anything above 2500 starts to begin "screaming American Eagles of Oblivion coming to takeover your town." Before I pulled the trigger on a Magnum XL swap, I had researched and no one was (at the time) upgrading the 3160. One of my goals was to swap the 6th out for a .50 ratio. Which is what I did in my Magnum build. So now, with R spec tire height and 4.09s, my 6th gear cruising will accomplish both desires. it'll allow me to cruise at 2k rpms at 77 mph. 2500 rpms is 96mph. So cruising at 80mph is like a cool 2100 rpms. Nice and purring and capable of having a phone call, while still not getting blown off the road by Ricky and his 5 kids and they're Uhaul truck. [/QUOTE]
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