[DeTomaso] QZF Ratios - was Rare De Tomaso Parts?

[MikeLDrew at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/31/08 16 22 45, JDeRyke at aol.com writes:


> Supposedly, post-'80 wide-body cars had an option of 4.22 or
> a 3.77 ring & pinion.
> 

Another option on the 80's cars was a 4.00.

I know one original owner of such a car, who paid big extra bucks for his 
4.00 ring and pinion in his GT5-S.   The top of his gearbox case is stamped 
"4.00".   Yet a few years later he drove side-by-side down the road with another 
GT5-S, with a standard 4.22 ratio, and they turned EXACTLY the same RPM.

So, De Tomaso charged him about $3000 extra for the "4.00" stamp on the 
gearbox, but never bothered to switch the ratios!!!!

He was famous for that sort of thing; Colin Bradshaw paid extra big bucks to 
get a tricked-out motor, but when it finally blew up, he opened it up and 
discovered that it was a bone-stock 351W truck engine; all the aftermarket goodies 
and custom work he had paid for evidently got left behind in Modena 
somewhere....

Mike


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