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Old 13th May 2019, 04:56 AM
ainarssems ainarssems is offline
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Thanks for this Ainars,

Do I understand correctly from these PDFs that
5th gear on 3.7 is longer than on standard non-S8 4.2,
delivering lower rpm on same motorway road speed?

Cheers.
Smaller ratio number means longer gear but you need to take into account also intermediate and final drive ratios. It's a bit hard to tell, probably best to put all the data in excel spreadsheet to multiply all different ratios and to show the total for each box and gear.
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