>From: "William Davies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Ultimately, whatever gear set you have is irrelevant - direct 4th gear will >always be 1:1.
How is this true? It seems to me that a gearbox out of a GT6 would be assuming a different final driveratio and therefore a different speed at any given rpm even in direct 4th. >Also, why do you believe the Mazda is accurate? Our 9 year old >VW Passatt is pretty optimistic and always was when it was a much younger >car in my father-in-law's ownership. One of the American car magazines (Road and Track?) did a article on speedo accuracy recently and found that some manufacturers apparently were purposely making optimistic speedometers. >There are certainly too many variables to start pulling things apart - only >calibrate against known measurrements. At the moment both of your >calibration benchmarks are unknown variables, not a good starting point, I didn't see any mention as to whether you were running stock tires; that could have an effect. Do you have any measured miles on the highways? I checked my speedometer on one of those once and is seems to be dead on. The odometer, however is off almost 5%. Best Greg Rowe _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 /// [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list /// Send admin requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] /// or try http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool /// Archives at http://www.team.net/archive /// Send list postings to [EMAIL PROTECTED] /// Edit your replies! If they include this trailer, they will NOT be sent.