B18A swap

[AzCivic]

Originally posted by cashizslick
Because you can ride the added power for a longer ammount of time. - thats why turbo cars have long gear ratios and NA cars have short gear ratios.

lets compare gear ratios of a factory Turbo car and a factory N/A car...

Eclipse turbo: New Civic SI:

Final Drive: 4.93 4.764

1st Gear Ratio: 3.08 3.062
2nd Gear Ratio: 1.68 1.769
3rd Gear Ratio: 1.12 1.212
4th Gear Ratio: .83 .921
5th Gear Ratio: .67 .738

hmmm, the eclipse ends up with a shorter first gear, they both have identical 2nd gears, third finally has the civic with a shorter ratio(3.5mph difference, not really all that much) then 4th is actually decently shorter on the civic where if the shift points and everthing else were the same the civic would shift a whole 8mph sooner than the eclipse.

so the ratios arent really all that different for these cars, hmmm, what if we made the eclipses slightly longer ratios(3, 4) exactly the same as the civic's...I wonder would the eclipse win by an even greater margin or would the civic somehow benefit from the eclipses "mistake"?