In every boat test we run, we include certain specs that we feel are valuable to our readers. Some of them may seem meaningless, but we wouldn’t publish them if we didn’t think they were important.

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 ...

If you’re new to the off-road world or unfamiliar with the way the axles on your truck work, then you might be unfamiliar with why you’d want to bother changing the gear ratios in your truck’s axles.

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 ...

This definitely sounds like the setup to a joke that's only funny to a hyper-specific audience. "What's the difference between a close ratio and a wide ratio transmission? About a second and a half ...

Default, conservative gear ratios. Note the smooth curve of the line connecting the ratio graph bars. Gearing ratios determine how many turns of the driveshaft result in a single turn of the wheels ...

Higher, lower, taller, shorter, more, lesshow do you have any idea what guys are talking about when it comes to rear-axle gears? It's confusing, because the slang seems to contradict the math.

Even though almost all new mountain bikes now have just one chainring and no front derailleur, it would still be nice to have all those other gear ratios again. The Binary Gear is designed to bring ...

One of the 2021 Ford Bronco's most interesting features is the available seven-speed manual transmission. If seven gear ratios seem odd, it's because it is. It's remarkable that in a time when manual ...

An old joke in physics is that of the “spherical cow”, poking fun at some of the assumptions physicists make when tackling a new problem. Making the problem simple like this can help make its ...

From a load-capacity point of view, the most suitable gearhead ratio has the highest torque density for the most compact (and cost-effective) package. From an application point of view, the best ...