[solidaxle]

It's mostly hilly to flat around here. I prefer staying off the major highways. Motor is a stock 8ba 239 with a blower. I had the car for 7years so I know how it takes the hills with the stock 3:54 gears. At times I need to shift down to second on the back road hills, revs are up and mph is slower, I'm thinking it's only a plus to have the 2-sp, I can then up shift 2nd high. My concern is on the flat or marginal hill it will fall on it's face. My thought is, as others have suggested the 3:78 would be a good choice but is it worth the effort to go from 3:54 to 3:78? It's not that big of a jump.