...it looks like I'll have another Civic shortly. *chuckles* A wagon no less, 84. :-)
Now to track down tranny parts...
Current plan: (since all the individual parts are interchangable and cheap as hell)
1st Gear | 2nd Gear | 3rd Gear | 4th Gear | 5th Gear | Final Drive | |
85 Civic SI | 84-87 CRX HF | 84-87 CRX HF | 85 Civic SI | 84-87 CRX HF | 86-87 Civic SI | Source of Part |
~7:11 | ~8:11 | ~7:10 | ~7:11 | Per-shift Gear Ratios | ||
3.30 | 2.03 | 1.44 | 1.00 | 0.65 | 4.40 | Gear Ratios |
33.8 | 54.9 | 77.4 | 111.4 | 171.4 | Speed @ 6000RPM | |
48.2 | 65.2 | 97.3 | 135.1 | 161.7 | Stock Speed @ 6000RPM | |
143% | 119% | 126% | 121% | 94% | New Acceleration | |
70% | 84% | 80% | 82% | 106% | New Top Speed |
The tranny would be approximately 6000rpm->4000rpm at the 2-3 and 3-4 shift (longer jump from 1st and into 5th, both intentional) and shifted down a fair bit from a stock Civic transmission (14.52 versus 10.1626 for the standard '84 transmission) so it'll accelerate MUCH better from a dead stop.
Edit And just as a side-note before people go "BUH? You'll go how fast?!?" at the top speeds I listed there, note that especially 5th gear is purely a 'cruising at 55-75 gear on flat ground' choice meant to really bump up highway MPG values. The stock engine won't have enough oomph to get up to those speeds at all. But I believe the stock transmission would be stuck in 2nd at best on the grapevine, while the 're-geared' one should still be able to handle 3rd on the grapevine. And my RPM's will be around 2000 at 55mph both before and after the conversion, so my long-distance MPG won't be affected negatively by this change, only my city MPG will take a slight penalty. Only thing left to do, start going over my Civic manuals to plan out where I'll put an oil cooler and temperature probe in since I learned how cheap such a system is.