Altering final drive ratio.

[washy]

Anyone here changed the final drive ratio of a Cerb? I'm considering this for my Cerb. I figure having a car geared for 190mph+ is a bit daft but gear that down to say 170/175mph max at the final drive, thus bringing all gears down a bit, should improve acceleration?! I have no problem with traction in lower gears so I can't see a downside to this. Only upside in more acceleration out of corners.

Thoughts anyone? Would I have to replace the whole hydratrak or is there room for adjustment in there? There must still be a crown and pinion somewhere in there right?

Washy

[davidd]

Interestng idea, you could try it on smaller wheels

But seriously, I thought the hydratrack was fluid based (might be talking utter shite here) so you'd have to make sure you could get it back together properly.

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[joospeed]

you ned to get on to douglas valley breakers and get the diff from the tuscan or cerbera sp6 then .. slightly lower ratio.

[shpub]

You might want to download one of the car acceleration software poackages that will produce acceleration curves for different bhp and gear ratios. The name CarTEST comes to mind. You can change wheel sizes, diff ratios etc and see how it affects the accelaeration. Not 100% accurate but the relative differences are usually spot on.

Used it to evaluate changing the diff on my 520 but came to the conclusion that it made little difference. Worth playing with before spending a lot of money.