The way the transmission upgrades work right now is good, but it means if you want fully tunable gears, you’ll have a minimum of 6 gears, unless the drift transmission is available, then it’ll be 4, but not 5.
•Street gearbox just slightly tweaks the gear ratios to be more evenly spread, but it’s not tunable at all.
•Sport gearbox gives us the street gearbox gear ratios while letting us control of the final drive.
•Race gearboxs finally let us manually tune each individual gear, but it also gives us 6 gears with a straight-cut whine.
Most of the time this is cool, but sometimes I would love to have control over the full gearbox tuning without having any extra gears or the straight-cut whine while driving. If I’m building a more down to Earth street car, but the gear ratios are terrible and need to be changed, the only good options for tuning is a race gearbox. Here’s how I think it should work instead.
•Street transmission should offer same number of gears as stock but with the final drive being tunable.
•Sport should function as Race does now, except with the stock number of gears and no straight-cut gear whine.
•Race can then function as it does now, except offer an additional gears above the stock number, rather than jumping straight to 6. For example, a car with 4 gears standard, can have a race transmission with 5 gears instead of 6.
I think this tweak would benefit tuners who enjoy building lower horsepower cars in lower performance categories. Sometimes a car will be perfect, but the gears will just be way too long or too short. A race gearbox would take the PI too high, or remove the street car vibe you were originally aiming for. A tunable gearbox with the same number of gears as the stock transmission without a straight-cut whine would be perfect for these types of builds.