Final Gear rations and seat of the pants feel. Options

[SCCA Stang]

Ideally you'd grab your dyno sheet and set the gearing up so that the car crosses the line just past its HP peak in your gear of choice.

this is good info to think about... I know that most of us think about this when we are trying to build the car however... how do you get to this figure?

are we talking about using a desktop dyno (or chassis dyno) to find peak torque/power output then calculate 1/4 mile times based on those numbers and then calculate acceleration and distance per gear to determine speed at the end to determine what gear to run in the end????

sounds pretty complicated with out a big fat greek wallet!!!!

then again if I did have a big fat greek wallet I would just dyno my car, rent a track for a weekend and then switch gears every pass to see what gear accually yeilded the best results.