Tuesday, April 18 2006: Gear ratio and RPM
From the Wikipedia
article on gear ratios we learn that:
vcar = (Ctire * vengine) /
(grgear * grdiff)
For those of us with no tach, RPM can be inferred using the
following formula:
vengine = vcar * (grgear * grdiff)
/ Ctire
In cars with transaxles, grdiff is the final drive ratio, otherwise it'd be the gear ratio in the rear differential.