"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." — Archimedes (287- 212 B.C.) On the street, everything is a compromise. Power is now easier to make than ...

What's the deal with the Jeep Wrangler Rubicon's four-to-one (4:1) transfer case? What about those 4.10 gears in those beefy Dana 44 axles? Why is it that when people put bigger tires on their ...

To make this gear ratio comparison possible, we used a car equipped with a 9-inch Ford housing and had Drivetrain Warehouse set up three centersections with 3.00, 3.50 and 4.11 gearsets. We also used ...

The axle connects two or more of a vehicle's wheels to the same axis, whether on the front or back, and depending on how it's configured, the performance of your ride can vary greatly. Furthermore, ...

Few vehicle modifications have as major an impact as changing gear ratios, and it's because your car's gear ratio directly translates to how it delivers power. Think about it: The gear ratio, or how ...

As we marched into the era of electronically controlled transmissions, the debate was no different in the olden days when trying to decide between a Turbo 350 and Turbo 400. The TH350 is lighter and ...

This is your zero gear ratio; the output ring gear stays where it is. But the axles can be offset from the center of the drive gear – there's a sliding actuator that gradually pushes all three axles ...