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Originally Posted by nextcar

At the time I did the swap, the factory 4.3 option was not available or I might have gone that way as a cheaper OEM (read quiet) gear option... I spent $480 on new OEM gears, $250 on a complete 4.1 differential from a salvage yard (20K miles on it!), about $150 on seals, bearings, gear oil, etc. to take my time doing the setup and then do a quick complete diff swap.

If you are serious about racing, you need to worry about matching the track...

For a daily driver, within the last 10 posts there have been members saying they are happy with 4.3, 4.56, and 4.88 swaps...

my point is you hear a lot of hyperbole about "screaming revs on the highway" when 4.56 gears are only an 11% difference from 4.1 stock, and if you are comparing to 4.3 are only a 6% difference. It just is not that big of a deal on the street.

To this day my 4.56 gears bring a smile to my face in 3rd gear on an empty cloverleaf onramp... but I always want a little more acceleration - hence my wondering about 4.88s!

The only reason I quoted who I did is because they also went with 4.3, the whole screaming revs on the highway I could give a shit less about. If 4.88 was the "solution" then that is what I would have went with. For me 4.3 works for 95% of what I want it to. I only needed to shift the revs a few hundred RPM to get it to where it was good enough.