is gear to much

Our drag car (1/4mi) had a 4.88 gear Dana with a 440 and auto and 32/14.5's it went through the traps at 6800rpm which was about perfect, it left hard and usually 60fts were low 1.40's with a best of 1.32 off a TB.
I'm sure our combos are very different and I'm with mshred try it and see what happens, sounds like it's a work in progress so I wouldn't get rid of a thing til it's all said and done, maybe there's a decent road you can try it out on, perhaps even with VHT like my lil test strip