sti ra gearset top speed
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last night after work my speedo went past 140 between the ph on mph and my hks turbo timer read 145. before that i hit 132 and 135, according to my tt. I have the ra gearset and it is way quicker to 145 than my regular gearset. i could only get up to 140 with my stock gearset and now i feel like i can go faster than 145 my rpms were at about 6800 at 145.
steve
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Oops. 
What's your cruising RPMs at 70?
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k guys,
70 in 5th was 3300, not to bad at all considering my friends mr2 is 4k
35 in 3rd was 3k
35 in 4th was 225 or so
146 was the fastest i got it tonight and it wouldnt go any faster due to power and wind resistance, i took a picture with my phone and i was at redline as well, but my turbo timer read 146. any other questions or speeds at what rpm let me know and i will check.
steve
70 in 5th was 3300, not to bad at all considering my friends mr2 is 4k
35 in 3rd was 3k
35 in 4th was 225 or so
146 was the fastest i got it tonight and it wouldnt go any faster due to power and wind resistance, i took a picture with my phone and i was at redline as well, but my turbo timer read 146. any other questions or speeds at what rpm let me know and i will check.
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ban suvs-i know the rpms will be higher at ever speed due to the ratios, but i was wondering what the sti ra gear set's speed is? with the ra 5th gear as well, because i gather that a lot of people run the stock fifth gear with sti ra 1-4.
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145ish as posted above. The gearing on a WRX is good for like 170, but the car doesn't haev enough power to get there. People who run the stock 5th on the RA gears just do it for better freeway mileage.
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Ban SUv's answered your question? well if he didnt
Its all ra gears and if you wanted stronger gears but better gas miliage with out a jacked up jump from fourth to fith you can get the Sti non ra gears which have a short 1-3rd but a little taller 4-5th gears instead of one tall gear its 2 so it eases into the taller gears. I really like these gears cause my commute is a 55 mph highway and i can stay in 5th and pass cause it pulls really hard in 5th.
With these gears like i stated earlier gets to a higher speed than the stock gears on the power i had now cause i didnt have enought power to get past 140 with stock gears, thats the fastest i got with stock gears on a way longer road. but since this has better gearing i got up to 146. it was also at redline It was ovisly the turbo over spooling so im thinking top speed with a bigger turbo would be 150 i dont know what the rev limiter is at.
Its all ra gears and if you wanted stronger gears but better gas miliage with out a jacked up jump from fourth to fith you can get the Sti non ra gears which have a short 1-3rd but a little taller 4-5th gears instead of one tall gear its 2 so it eases into the taller gears. I really like these gears cause my commute is a 55 mph highway and i can stay in 5th and pass cause it pulls really hard in 5th.
With these gears like i stated earlier gets to a higher speed than the stock gears on the power i had now cause i didnt have enought power to get past 140 with stock gears, thats the fastest i got with stock gears on a way longer road. but since this has better gearing i got up to 146. it was also at redline It was ovisly the turbo over spooling so im thinking top speed with a bigger turbo would be 150 i dont know what the rev limiter is at.