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bmanning
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Aug 20, 2013

Surprising discovery: 5-speed vs 6-speed automatic

As some of you know from other threads I am trying to help my FIL find a Sequoia for grand kid duty. In doing general research I looked into the ratios of the 2005+ 5-speed (behind the 4.7) vs the ...
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Frostbitte
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Aug 21, 2013
BenK wrote:
It has always been the final ratio at pavement vs engine rev's

All of the gear boxes in the drive train only factor it...yes the diff is both
a differential and one speed gear box

For us old time boy racers...these high number of gears are just close ratio
gear boxes of old...with double OD and wonder if there is a triple OD out there?


The new 9-speed in Chrysler cars have 4 OD ratios. :D

Frostbitte

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