[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by patox

Wow, congratulations Keith, your car still looks wonderful.

I think I've read this whole thread more than a couple time, and I don’t remember reading anything about those "numbered prototype wheels" nor "4.88:1 gears".

Could you please give me (us) more details about it? what about the wheels? and how do you get to have that short-short gear!

Regards!

Sure -

The Rally I's are just an early set, which have the wheel number sequence hand stamped on the back side (I still have one wheel which has never been repainted). Basically that means that the build quality is lower than a production wheel and that the slots aren't formed very well or very evenly...

The 4.88 gear is left over from the car's racing days. It was ordered and equipped with the 3.90 axle. As it gradually got faster and faster the rear axle ratio was stepped up, resulting in 4.88 gearset that is still in there. In it's heyday, Dad would shift at 7000 rpm, which is when the hand would sweep off the tach face, and go through the traps just shy of that (with a 28x9" tire, IIRC).

So basically how you get to have those short-short gears is you have to lay in the driveway and swap 'em out!



I do still have the original 3.90 gear set in the basement.

K