| BMW's SMG-I takes over 200ms to shift. Audi's DSG takes over 200ms. Enzo Ferrari takes 150ms. According to Wikipedia, an average manual car driver takes 500ms to shift and that is where the *default* value used in the calculator came from. It is not arbitrarily chosen. I am also inclined to not have a good impression of you if you think drag videos are a conclusive way of telling somebody's shift time. Our knowledge bases and intellect levels are so different (excuse if I'm sounding condescending) that we can't communicate productively. #2. The calculator does not account for tire slippage. This factor causes it to be more favorable to the car with leader gears. In reality, a Z with over 500hp is likely to have traction issues and the car with Leader gears will be more severely affected. So what even if the gearing change causes the car to be *marginally* faster, if at all? It's not worth the parts+labor cost, the downtime, the whining sound, the degraded fuel economy for many of us. Now, some drivers may find the Leader gears to me more enjoyable which is entirely subjective. Not me, because I hate when my friend with his turbo-charged E36 can hardly use his first gear, and when I run out of second gear in my Z at 70mph. Enough of digression; I've alredy argued on this topic enough here. Thank you.
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