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weetabixhead

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Motorway cruising speed in 5th. Have to say it makes a savage difference to the car. Pull in 3rd thru 5th is alot better.

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That's pretty short. What's top speed? (Too lazy to work it out) must be about 125?
 
Roughly 125 yeah. Ill try get a video up in the nxt few days. It really transformed the car. Very tedious driving at motorway speeds though
 
I will be fitting 4.9 soon and I thought briefly about fitting gear set too, but I can already tell it would be far to short.
 
Yeah id say it would be a bit much with a 4.9 aswell! It would prob be great for a day or so then you would get pissed off with it.
 
I couldnt do that...it would drive me mad. Over 5k revs in 5th at highway speed...nuts!
 
Not a bad set for acceleration & rev drop, probably 117mph gps with a 15" tyre, approx. 122mph on the clocks. That a GearX set?
 
that is far too short

i ran the exact same gearset but with longer first and standard 4.4FD - with a 243bhp B18 it was on the limiter in 5th in no time
 
Drivers preference i guess. I like it as i rarely drive the car long distances. The one thing i did notice with the 4.7 is that i have to pull 3rd before 60 mph which is taking a bit of getting used to after going from the 4.4 box. The car is going on track eventually and we only have one over here unfortunately. But anyway theres alot of 2nd and 3rd gear corners (with the 4.4fd box) and the main straight is 95-100 mph max so this gearbox is well suited to that track in my opinion
 
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New gears sound great

What track do you mean Kirkistown? I have a very similar gearset on my EK4 track car and we are getting roughly 123mph down the straights on 5th gear limiter. You are right though all of the bottom end corners are 3rd gear

Mondello circuit near Dublin is another option and your car would be geared really well for it but you might want to trailer the car down to save the long drive in the civic
 
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