cliffticuff

Anyone here have upgrade their gears? I'm tempted to pick up the kia 4.77 -- I'm looking around to find a decent shop for install and what each of you paid? Let me know, thanks.

Headchef

Had mine installed at Synapse motorsport in Burnt Hills. Don't remember the cost. Find them at Synapse Turbo.com

RIDGERCR

Hey there Cuff.

I'm running the 4.44 gears for the final drive and if memory serves me right I had them swapped out at Childs Automotive in Saratoga.
www.childsautomotive.com

I think I paid between $200 and $300 to get them done. Not sure exactly though, but its in my records when I can find them.

You might also want to get a "yellow box" speed calibrator once you do this. I did that myself but its a bit tricky unless you know what you're doing. (it comes with instructions) And I think I bought those off of either hardtopguy.com or modifry, not sure again.

Just for a note, with the installed 4.44 final drive gears, when cruising at 70 mph, you should be running at just over 4000 rpms.

So the higher in number you go, say like 4.50 or 4.77, then the less gas mileage you'll get and you'll be running closer to VTEC than before.

Just a thought...
Hope I could help.
(And by the way, when is the next autocross over in Edinburgh or are they all done this year?)

cliffticuff

I'll give that place in saratoga a buzz! Thanks a lot, I appreciate it.

Next autocross in Edinburg is the 18th and 19th. I was going to post it up later tonight. There's also one in lake george this sunday.

I'll get the flyers printed up and posted. I'll also relist my video to show everyone whats up.

cliffticuff

***Childs no longer installs the final drive.;p lol. I've had a lot of local domestic shops turn me down too. I assumed itd be the same principle for the install.. who knows.

RIDGERCR

Sucks to hear Gary can't help you with the install, but his business has been booming for several years now and he's probably got alot of cars to work with on problems besides modifications.

The other 2 places I can think of are the Synapse Motorsport, that Dave (headchef) mentioned or you could also try www.inlineperformance.com also.

Dave's shop is located on Altamont Ave in Schenectady and he does mods on cars all the time. He should be able to hook you up too.

RIDGERCR

The 18'th may be an S2ki meet in Albany at this point, and the 19'th I have plans on.


I have to work this weekend so Sunday is out too.

Oh well...

CBR 2000

that edinburg event on the 18th and 19th is at that old kart track right? what does that cost per day? sucks that these guys seem to run on the same dates as MoHud SCCA (running an event in Scotia at the old state police EVOC training course on the 19th) but I wanna try to make an event on that kart track at some point so maybe ill do the saturday there and the sunday with mohud... hmmm.

cliffticuff

Yes. $20. Def. make it out to saturday.

See this thread.
https://www.s2ki.com/forums/index.php?showt...&#entry19460985