My somewhat tired out V6 3.0 Liter 1994 Ranger - probably is kicking somewhere around 100 - 110 hp at I'd guess about 4500-5000rpm today. Put all the gears in you can find at any ratio - and it won't top about 85 mph in 4th gear (1:1 in the trans). Just doesn't have the power. In fact - put it in OD (at I'd guess about an 1:89 trans ratio) - a "higher gear" and I'm not sure it'll get to 85.

 

that's what those land speed record guys forgot about .. . the gearing. Man .. . those idiots and thier rockets.

 

The guy that picks up our trash says he has 9 gears in his garbage truck????

Thats got go about 200 mph at least

 

My father's dump truck had 26 gears.

It must have been supersonic.

 

funny my father had better things to do then sit on the internet chatting about his mid-life crisis truck, and pokin fun at one-eyed 19 year olds over stupid crap. but i can understand, i mean what the hell was i thinking? just the idea gear ratios can change your rate of speed, or the speed you can achive in a given amount of time. i guess transmitions are just f@cking useless

 

The only reason people started poking fun, is because even after all the great explainations about wind resistance, frictional losses, etc, you kept insisting on your "more gears" theory.

To put Tim's explaination into even more basic terms. Wind resistance is pushing back against your vehicle with horsepower of it's own. If you hit a speed where the wind's horsepower is more than your horsepower, no amount of gears will allow you to overcome it.

 

thank-you shadow. i understood that part. i just dont uderstand why you couldnt shift into a lower gear and give the engine more leverage than the wind has. same concept as a ramp, lever, screws, pulleys. those crazy greeks and their invetions. my concept has been around almost since the beginning of man. and yours somewhere round 1920

 

Because the lower gear would also have a lower maximum speed before you hit the engine's redline. For example 3rd gear on our trucks has more "leverage" than 4rth gear, but you'd hit the engine's redline at about 119 mph.

 

i got that part. but we do have the extra 3 gears for a reason and with a 1:1 ratio my truck would top around 125. but it goes faster than that...maybe 176

 

176 mph would work in a vacuum. Hmmm... Maybe that's why you can't get it out of your head. You've found the one place it will work.

 

sure odin, or i like messin with people who seem to enjoy beating a dead horse because they have nothing better to do

 

Frankenstein never scared me...

 

rosie o'donald scares me, and the fact that you found that pic concerns me

 

Marsupials do... :o

 

he was good in Batman