Jimny to many RPM on highway - Higher gear ratio

A VVT electronic transfer woud totally stuff your gear ratios. Starting in first gear would be like start in second gear now. It would be undriveable. ZookFastback is 100% correct about the Suzuki motor loving big RPM. When I had my last Jimny with 24% reduction trial Jimny gears and 235/75R15 tyres it would sit at 4950RPM when doing 100km/h and sometimes for hours at a time. 110km/h was very loud

I ended up installing sound proofing throughout the floor and side panels which helped a lot.

zukenutter wrote: A VVT electronic transfer woud totally stuff your gear ratios. Starting in first gear would be like start in second gear now. It would be undriveable. ZookFastback is 100% correct about the Suzuki motor loving big RPM. When I had my last Jimny with 24% reduction trial Jimny gears and 235/75R15 tyres it would sit at 4950RPM when doing 100km/h and sometimes for hours at a time. 110km/h was very loud

I ended up installing sound proofing throughout the floor and side panels which helped a lot.

Your age is really showing Paul :laugh:

But as other have said, they need to rev. Once i re-gear, i will be sitting on around 4200rpm and that's with 31's...

Monkey wrote:

zukenutter wrote: I ended up installing sound proofing throughout the floor and side panels which helped a lot.

Your age is really showing Paul :laugh:

Yeah well, not much point having a decent sound system if half of what you hear is gear and road noise.