SPEED HERO Blog — Front-wheel drive

Brocks technology: Late 70's Australia wasn't quite a technological marvel. In a previous post we mumbled about his gear ratios. 4th seems to provide for him 270km/h at 6000rpm. Either his 4th gear was excessively long, or the rear end ratio is long. The latter is the more likely of the scenarios. His 308 V8 would've needed quite a clean strong, and long power band from low RPM's through to the high ones in order to run such long gears for the first scenario mentioned. The second is...