Q's: About 342 Gears
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Q's: About 342 Gears
I have a friend that has 373 gears. At a dead stop, he can peel rubber in 1 and 2(auto). I also hav a 98 auto vert with 342's. From a dead stop, my car want spin with traction control on or off in 1 or 2. Is this right for 342's not to spin in 1 or 2 in a slightly moded vert.
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Originally Posted by griffgoody
I have a friend that has 373 gears. At a dead stop, he can peel rubber in 1 and 2(auto). I also hav a 98 auto vert with 342's. From a dead stop, my car want spin with traction control on or off in 1 or 2. Is this right for 342's not to spin in 1 or 2 in a slightly moded vert.
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Originally Posted by griffgoody
I have a friend that has 373 gears. At a dead stop, he can peel rubber in 1 and 2(auto). I also hav a 98 auto vert with 342's. From a dead stop, my car want spin with traction control on or off in 1 or 2. Is this right for 342's not to spin in 1 or 2 in a slightly moded vert.
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Originally Posted by C5magic
With 3.42 gears you should be able to spin your tires, assuming you are running stock run flats. If there is a tuner near you have your car checked. Your car sounds like it might be down on power.
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Originally Posted by griffgoody
I'm not running run flats and I just installed vararam and tpis headers. I guess I need to get the car tuned again. Even when I got a street tune for the 342's/air/fuel/shift points/etc... the car has never spun from a dead stop or roll. But the car runs strong.
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You definately should get your car tuned. After installing headers your engine will often run too rich costing you HP. If you really want to wake up your car install a high stall T/C.
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Originally Posted by blackbelt
John when did you get the 3.42's ?? Hope the car is running good let me know how everything is going..
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Originally Posted by Shawn MacAnanny
I melt my tires in 1st or 2nd with 295 F1s and 3.42s. I dont see a need to go with shorter gears becuase even with DRs i leave 20ft black marks in 2nd.
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Originally Posted by griffgoody
What all do you have on your car as far as mods.
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Originally Posted by griffgoody
Do you have a yank or vig t/c. Or, are you running a stock stall.
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A4,3.42's - with traction off, they will melt my GS D3"s.
Heck, with my original 3.15 I could get tire squeal when punching-it from a stop. Not much though, but it would chirp the tires. With my 3.42 (still using the stock tires and TC) there's no problem at all.
Here is a video of a girl driving my 2002 just after the 3.42 upgrade (and that was the only mod at the time the video was taken):
http://hometheater.home.att.net/ohiogirl1year.mpg
(of course, traction control was turned off via the DIC)
Granted; in order to seriously melt the factory tires, I would still need to start it off with a little bit of power-braking first.
Smoking tires may be a cool visual effect, but it makes one a lose in a drag race.
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Heck, with my original 3.15 I could get tire squeal when punching-it from a stop. Not much though, but it would chirp the tires. With my 3.42 (still using the stock tires and TC) there's no problem at all.
Here is a video of a girl driving my 2002 just after the 3.42 upgrade (and that was the only mod at the time the video was taken):
http://hometheater.home.att.net/ohiogirl1year.mpg
(of course, traction control was turned off via the DIC)
Granted; in order to seriously melt the factory tires, I would still need to start it off with a little bit of power-braking first.
Smoking tires may be a cool visual effect, but it makes one a lose in a drag race.
