Wilcap Slant Six to 200R4 conversion

the_engineers said

Bill, I certainly respect your opinion. We can both produce examples of higher and lower 1st gear ratios. I guess the point I was making is the NAG-1 is not a perfect solution and has as many, or more, pitfalls than the 200. I've searched this forum, and others, pretty thoroughly for a reasonable OD solution and this seems to be the best bet. With all the prior discussion that has gone on here and on the Slant Six forum, maybe I should simply have asked why he'd bother bringing that topic into a dedicated 200-4r thread...

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I don't have an opinion about that (NAG-1) transmission since I am not familiar with it; I just thought that the gear ratio "problem" (1st seemed too low,) could be eliminated by running a final drive that would seemingly "fix" two problems simultaneously.

It decreases the torque multiplication in first gear to a reasonable overall ratio (11.6:1) while making the weak OD ratio of .83:1 a pretty good highway gear @ 2.68:1. That would seem to sufficiently "tall" for anything bit Bonneville.

If I am missing something here, please explain it to me.

As I said, I don't know anything at all about those transmissions and don't have a dog in this fight at all...

I just thought the ratios were pretty workable, as presented, with the 3.23 gear.

No argument; just my opinion...