1971 Ford Torino - Gear vendors overdrive, cruising w/overdrive, gear splitting, 351c - muscle car

Last winter, I installed a gear vendors overdrive into my 1971 Ford Torino GT(351c, C4 auto trans, 3.5 rear gears). This video is about the driving experience of the car with the gear vendors unit. The gear vendors is a great solution if you've got a classic car that has a little too high of a gear ratio for cruising at freeway speeds. Midway thru filming the video, I installed a tach to show the difference in cruise rpm's with the overdrive on compared to the overdrive off.

0:24 - Intro
0:55 - Autodrive
2:55 - Gear-splitting in Autodrive, 2nd "over"
4:30 - Manual mode
4:50 - Gear splitting in manual model, 2nd, 2nd "over, 3rd, 3rd "over"
6:25 - Freeway cruising w/tachometer hooked up!
7:07 - conclusion
7:37 - bonus night time cruising




Here are the links to the videos I made that follow the installation of the gear vendors unit,
part 1:    • 1971 Torino GT - Gear Vendors overdri...  
part 2:    • 1971 Torino GT - Gear Vendors overdri...  

Fuel economy test I did with the Torino; this is before the car had the gear vendors unit:    • 1971 Ford Torino GT - fuel economy mp...