Thank you for the numbers breakdown , follow up to my OP, will the 2.93 (vs the 3.23 the 4 barrels got) survive behind the modifications I am making to the engine? 4 barrel and a bit larger cam and possibly 235-60-14 tires in the rear?
You didn't say what engine you are running, nor what trans, nor even what car.
I mean, Ima guessing we're talking about the early-Barracuda, and it sounds like it might be a V8 but that's all I could figure out.
But it seems safe to say that with 235s, the diff shouldn't be an issue until you do one to many one-wheel peels..
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However;
after the bigger cam goes in with no other changes, maybe sooner, a 2.93 ratio will probably suck ............ cuz first gear with say an A904, is good for 9.36mph per 1000rpm at WOT, and thus 3000rpm will be 28mph................. so when you floor it at 28mph, your engine better have some torque........... or gears. lol. But below 3000, say from 1800stall, and already rolling; it's gonna suck even more.
The point is this;
If you have a 273/auto, every modification you do is tied to every subsequent one, and if you do them in the wrong order, there will be disappointment. So you need a plan of action, and a dedicated budget, or just deep pockets.
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Gone
are the days we could throw a grand at the DD and come out with a HotRod, like was done in the 60s. Nowadays, a grand might not even get you a core 8.75 with 2.73s; Nor gears and a convertor; nor a new carb and intake; nor headers and dual exhaust; nor a cam kit and retune (well just maybe). and then stuff starts breaking. and the trans takes the first hit. Then you figure out that your engine is a lil tired. and your drum brakes suck, and the car handles like a wet noodle, and keeps wiping out all the time.
Then you get married, the wife gets pregnant, and everything comes to a screeching halt for the next 25 years. Then when you finally get past that, now your HotRod has rusted to itty bitty pieces and you can't buy body panels for all the gold in FortKnox (as we used to say).
Ok well maybe that was just me, lol.
Daymn I/m never getting married again, Oh wait, now I'm just 10 years from the END. It hardly pays to start anything; by the time I'm done, I'll be told that I'm too feeble to drive a wheelchair, never mind a HotRod.
Life is hard, then it sux, then you die.
Yeah so make a plan, budget and save. Don't get married until AFTER the car is done and paid for.
Oh wait, if yur 39 it might be too late, By age 39 my kids were 12, 10, and 8; out of diapers but still expensive. Thankfully nobody was sick, and nobody was into sports. More thankfully, my wife had her figure back. Now it was me looking a lil porky. Ah well, a lil weight training got that under control. Butum, we were living in a 4(FOUR) room house, plus bathroom. and I was still paying on the mortgage........... Like I said, it was hard. We learned to budget. The car was under tarp for 20 years, then 3 to build it, then maiden voyage, then 5 years of fine-tuning, then 10 of driving the nuts off it, then the body fell off around it. I guess life for the car was just as hard, just as sucky, and then it just got old and died.
Vanity, vanity, all is in vanity. I think it was Solomon who said that. It's been said that he was the wisest man that ever lived. I suppose having 700 wives and 300 concubines besides, taught him a thing or two ........ I bet he was never overweight, lol.
But I digress .....
