I've race an early '84, with the disc rear brakes, and unknown year transmission. This weekend, I missed a lot of shifts, I think the syncro is shot, hard to find third sometimes, like stirring soup. I have an old parts car, an '83, with a decent tranny. I read that there is some slight difference in some of the ratios in the '81/'83's and the '83/'84's. Example is 1st gear, either 3.674 or 3.622, 2nd either 2.217 or 2.186, 3rd 1.432 or 1.419. Is there much difference? Will I notice it? Will the differences affect my lap times?

[This message has been edited by bcarter (edited July 22, 2002).]