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Seems like a good combo to me. The bleed down lifters will help bottom end and make the 3.55 gears pretty nice for city driving.

Rear tire size (height) is a substantial part of the gearing equation. A shorter tire can be used if you feel the gears are too tall. All within reason of course so the tire doesn’t look ‘lost’ in the wheel opening from being too short.

What size tires do you plan to use ?

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Seems like a good combo to me. The bleed down lifters will help bottom end and make the 3.55 gears pretty nice for city driving.

Rear tire size (height) is a substantial part of the gearing equation. A shorter tire can be used if you feel the gears are too tall. All within reason of course so the tire doesn’t look ‘lost’ in the wheel opening from being too short.

What size tires do you plan to use ?
B-Man sorry for the delay in my reply I lost an argument with a receiver hitch on my brothers pickup and it's been quite the ordeal ended up with an infection, and a (few now) trips to the wound clinic... blah blah blah .....

Anyway the car has 265-60/14s on the rear so I won't be to tall .... this car won't ever be an interstate cruiser anyway so I think I will run with it the way it is and as always thank you for your input!!

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