[DML] Re: Transmissions (was upgrade paths)

["Dave Swingle" <swingle@xxxx>]

I don't know if it's an automotive thing or what, but yes, Higher 
Gear Ratios have Lower (smaller) Numbers. My assumption is that it 
has something do to with tranmission nomenclature - i.e. Low Gear is 
a bigger gear ratio (number) than high gear. Although Low Gear is 
also called First Gear and High Gear is called Fifth gear at least in 
our case). . Now I'm confused!

In most magazine articles you read about such things, authors usually 
make clever statements like "you should put in a lower (higher 
numerical) ratio differential gear for quicker off-the line 
acceleration". 

Now that that is explained, do you really have a source for a lower 
(higher numerical) ratio ring and pinion set that will fit this 
transmission, in the reversed mode used in the DMC? (And yes, I 
understand that the pinion gear is the entire countershaft too!). 

Dave S.

--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Martin Gutkowski <webmaster@xxxx> 
wrote:
> Um - if this is the case, then the term "high ratio" and "low 
ratio" are 
> different in automotive terms than mathematics, which I did rather 
a lot 
> of whilst doing my degree in electronics. To me a 2:1 ratio is 
lower 
> than a 3:1 ratio. But maybe the confusion arises whether it's 2:1 
or 1:2 ???
> 
> Martin

> >