Freeing up power and need some insight!

[hampsterzone]

Thanks, I really appreciate it. My mechanic says 4.56's will give me lots of off the line power/torque but my top end power will suffer from being at too high of rpms. What is the best route to go? in all honesty. They will be ordered today, so I kinda need to know what to buy soon. I just want good power and not to affect drivability. Thanks to whoever responds.

[Longshot270]

If you go with the 4.11 gears, you'll have a similar drive ratio of a stock truck with 3.55 gears. I would go one size bigger to give you more low end power that you were used to. That might even improve your mileage compared to the gears you've got now.

[hampsterzone]

One size bigger than 4.11? My truck has 3.73 in it now. So does that mean I should go w/ 4.56? Or 4.11? Thanks.....

[Longshot270]

When you went from stock 30ish inch tires to the 35's, you went to having something similar to an effective 3.11 gear ratio. If you put 4.11 gears in, that is similar to 3.55s.

Pegasus has a little gear ratio tool and the chart on this website Differential Gear Ratio Chart - Tire Size to Gear Ratio
That chart is pretty close to what I see going 70 with O/D off and the TC locked. You should play around with those to get a better idea of what the different gears will result in.

[BLFX4K]

If you haven't ordered already I'd go with 4.56s

How often will you be up in the higher rpms running sprints to 100mph+ with 35s it is not the safest idea

I believe there is a company that makes 4.30's but only the rear set last I checked.

going to 4.10s from 3.73s is NOT worth the amount of money you are going to spend. Do it once and do it right, 4.56s!

[hampsterzone]

Thanks a million! I already ordered the 4.56. I also ordered the electric fans from FF Dynamics which were the extreme duty ones. My question is, how much power will I noticeably feel with everything I have done one my truck. Keep in mind, I will be running 91 custom performance tunes, 4.56 gears, efans, along with all my other mods together for the first time.

[BLFX4K]

I've heard mixed reviews about the FF Dynamics Fans and most have chosen not to use them, I don't see any issues with them honestly.

It does not take much to keep the truck cool even under hard running, traffic etc.

If you're going to run them all together at the same time then you WILL notice a HUGE difference. I've slowly modded mine up and notice every small difference. The tuner was the biggest, then efans, gotts mod.

I'm sure the 4.56 will rate up above the efans since I have 35s on but no joke you will be amazed by the gains from tying in all the mods.

I was never able to smoke my 35s until the efans were put on, really freed things up