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Okay so if you have stock wheels and stock tires let's say you get 16 mpg. You go up to 33s you drop to 14 mpg because of the tire diameter and power loss. Gear to 4.56 and that brings your power back to what it was stock, so it acts like those bigger tires aren't there. It will bring you back to close to stock mpg.

 

ok I have a 97 V6 5 speed auto hubs and I want a rear locker and 488 gears F&R
How much?

 

i played around on http://www.grimmjeeper.com/gears.html and tested every tire and gear size that I would possibly use. I compared them all with stock rpm's and everything is higher rpms by at least 300. I don't know enough about this stuff to know how much of a difference that is, but that combined with the fact that almost everyone I've talked to with 33's and 4.56 or 35's and 4.56 says they are getting more power but not better gas mileage.

Sorry if I sound like a retard, but I'm not trying to spend all this money and do all this work, and then get worse gas mileage than I already do. Or do all this and then say o well i need bigger tires now to get the gearing to be comparable to stock, and go dump 2 grand on wheels and tires

 

If I were building a car off of some of your “theories” it would go down the freeway at 70mph at 800rpm but it would need to be floored the whole time. Thoughs other dumb car manufactures that build trucks that go down the road at 2500rpm at ¼ throttle don’t know anything right?



I know I am new here just to let you know, I am a little sarcastic please don’t hate me J

 

Hey Brandon. I was gona call you but I its not free long distance till after 7. Anyway, do you know how I can check or something to see if I need the master install kit or just the mini?

 

ur right in that aspect, but if u are already accounting for the chcange in tire diameter then u would see that u dont loose mpg's since u are traveling farther than what ur odometer says. yeah, u might have a slight power loss but i dont cuz of the supercharger.

example (this is using the odometer)
before i put bigger tires on, i was gettin around 300 miles to a tank on about 18 gallons of gas.
after tires, i was getting around 270 miles a tank on 18 gallons of gas.

however, i was still driving the same 300 miles that i was before based on GPS. so i really never lost the mpg that looked like i was. yes i might have lost like .5 mpg but nothing significant.

 

Just got back from checking out Bytor's shop and talking to Brandon, great guy btw. Got my price for my 4.56's front and rear.

Brandon: go ahead and put me down for mine. It will be after xmas When I can get them for myself.. have to get everyone elses gifts first. lol.

 

give him a call.

no offence, but if you want mpg, get a prius.

4.56s and 33s will put your rpms slightly higher. 4.56s and 35s will put them slightly lower.

and you do lose mpg by using a gps because you lose power. gears brings your power back and gives you most of those mpgs back.

 

what about 8.4" rear diffs?

 

give him a call, he can get what ever gears you need

 

oh ok i was just going off of the list you had

 

yeah thats bjust what he provided me, you can get gears for your friends moms daughters sisters uncles truck, doesnt matter! any kind of truck too.

 

u dont lose mpg by using a gps.

if u have stock tires and travel 300 miles on a tank of gas according to the odometer then u have stock mpg.
if u have 33's and travel 270 miles with odometer but ur gps really says u drive 300 miles on a tank of gas, then guess what, going by ur odometer u "lose" mpg's, however, ur true distance traveled according to gps is still 300 miles, u really didnt lose any mpg's. this happened to me. going to a bigger tire did not net me any mpg loss in reality. just according to my odometer i did since i travel farther than my truck thinks i do cuz of a larger tire. yes, i bog down more and dont get up to speed as fast as i did but i didnt lose the mpg's like it was being shown

 

I'm saying if you calculate it using a gps to get the correct mileage it will bring your mileage back up.

Once again, if you want gas mileage get a prius.

Btw, your wrong, you will lose mpg going larger in tire size.

 

no, not necissarly. i am gettin the same mileage i got when i bout the truck as i do now with bigger tires and a supercharger. dont speak in generalities, cuz u assume to much and u know what happens when u assume

 

yes sir. because you know when you get bigger tires you have the same mileage as when stock. yep.

totally true.

 

oh and btw, i dont give to shits about gas mileage. my truck is my daily driver and i dont care if gas goes up to 10 bucks a gallon, cuz im still gonna drive the fucker into the dirt

 

did you have a supercharger when you had stock tires?

 

did i already say over and over again that i take into account my actual mileage? im pretty sure i fuckin said that jackass. learn to fuckin read

 

no s/c with stock tires