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oldskool · 10-27-2021, 01:13 PM

"...In all honesty the car probably picked up a tenth..."

So, for others reading this who also made the switch from a PG to a 3-speed, after you got the whole 3-speed set-up tested, tuned, & finalized, did you also realize an aprox "tenth" ET improvement ? Or ?

Again, I'm just trying to determine, from actual racers who made the switch, as close as possible, how much quicker a 3-speed is than a Glide, in the same car, same class. Obviously, this is comparing top quality pieces, matched to the car, fully tested, tuned, & optimized.

Just from what little I've learned from this thread, it seems that the larger gains are realized from the lower power, lower torque engines. Is my assumption correct ?

With this in mind, would the 2-barrel version of an engine likely gain more from a 3-speed conversion, than for the 4-barrel version of that engine ?

10-27-2021, 01:13 PM	#14
oldskool VIP Member Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: The Land of Bayous, Boudin & Crawfish Posts: 1,668 Likes: 223 Liked 747 Times in 362 Posts	Re: Stock Auto Trans Rule Change History ? "...In all honesty the car probably picked up a tenth..." So, for others reading this who also made the switch from a PG to a 3-speed, after you got the whole 3-speed set-up tested, tuned, & finalized, did you also realize an aprox "tenth" ET improvement ? Or ? Again, I'm just trying to determine, from actual racers who made the switch, as close as possible, how much quicker a 3-speed is than a Glide, in the same car, same class. Obviously, this is comparing top quality pieces, matched to the car, fully tested, tuned, & optimized. Just from what little I've learned from this thread, it seems that the larger gains are realized from the lower power, lower torque engines. Is my assumption correct ? With this in mind, would the 2-barrel version of an engine likely gain more from a 3-speed conversion, than for the 4-barrel version of that engine ? Last edited by oldskool; 10-27-2021 at 01:29 PM.