Hi folks,
Just lookin' someone elses opinion on the VXR gearing. I consider the VXR engine to be rather torquey, so shouldn't the gearing be a little more spread. I was driving home last night, there are loads of 70's into 40's and vice versa (roadworks). I'm pretty sure 3rd accelerates almost as rapidly from 40 as 2nd does. I thought it would be good to have 1st go up to about 40, 2nd to about 75, and so on. We could retain the 6th gear for cruising only as I would imagine that the gear would be so big as to supply minimal accelerative benefit. If necessary the original map should have had more torque (as most recent S2 maps are torquey beasts).
VXR is an excellent car, but I just think a little more thought into various pieces of it (suspension) would have made it unbeatable.
Thoughts?
Just lookin' someone elses opinion on the VXR gearing. I consider the VXR engine to be rather torquey, so shouldn't the gearing be a little more spread. I was driving home last night, there are loads of 70's into 40's and vice versa (roadworks). I'm pretty sure 3rd accelerates almost as rapidly from 40 as 2nd does. I thought it would be good to have 1st go up to about 40, 2nd to about 75, and so on. We could retain the 6th gear for cruising only as I would imagine that the gear would be so big as to supply minimal accelerative benefit. If necessary the original map should have had more torque (as most recent S2 maps are torquey beasts).
VXR is an excellent car, but I just think a little more thought into various pieces of it (suspension) would have made it unbeatable.
Thoughts?
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