[scottj]

Roy,
I've got the 3.28 first gear. I had the 3.07 rear gears and they required the same finese in 1st and 2nd as the 3.54's. With 1st gear being kind of useless anyway, I decided to tighten up the 3-4-5 spread with the 3.54's. That made 5th gear more of a performance final drive than an economy final drive ratio.

I've got Vette/Dana44 with coilovers. The camber rods, toe rods, and trailing arms have been replaced with heims and swedged tubes. This was done to eliminate deflection and make the handling predictable. The hub carriers are modified to reduce bump steer and the mounting points for the camber rods are moved to decrease the camber gain. This was done to tighten the car at corner exit.

Prior to the suspension mods and with sticky tires, the chassis was unpredictable at best and I considered it to be dangerous with that much power. The stroke change from 4" to 3.5" would be to further refine the handling, strictly for the track.
As it is, I'm very happy with the street manners, realizing that without drastically reducing the power it probably isn't going to hook up in the lower gears.
Scott