Picking gears

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Just got a 68 Valiant not too long ago
360/380hp create engine, 2800 stall 727 with 2.96 gears. I want to take it down the strip a few time with the 2.96 gears but looking to upgrade somewhere between 3.55 - 4.10 haven't narrowed it down yet.

From what I understand you should be 500 - 600 rpm over peak power at the finish line which would be about 6000 rpm with 4.56 gears.

My question I assume that performance gain with gears is gonna be non linear.
Like going from 2.96 to 3.73 is gonna be a bigger jump than 3.73 to 4.56 in performance??

Assuming 4.56 is peak performer in this e.g.
Plus what et and mph should I be able to run with the right gear ?

I can't tell you what gear to use but I can tell you what RPM I figured out to shift at. I started out shifting at 6000 and starting going down on my shift points and I ran the quickest ET shifting at 5400 rpm. When I was shifting at a higher RPM it would nose down before it shifted. I am using a air shifter so all I had to do was change RPM chips. I only had 1.5 inch block hugger headers with 2 1/2 inch collectors on it so that had to slow me down.