Gear that Ruckus Taller with a Metro Variator?

[Dandy Dan]

I also had a potentially deep thought today. With the Ruckus variator we can gear it taller by shortening the spacer a bit or by filing the plates but that only works to a certain extent. I imagine once you've got the cam and a few other mods and are up near 50mph like abe you'll be geared to low to achieve the max potential top speed.

I was wondering if the metro uses slighly different clutches that are similar enough to be a bolt on swap but different enough that we have the potential to gear things taller than would be possible with our variators/clutches. The reason I suspect they may have different gear ratios is because the outer diameter of their wheels is significantly smaller. Because of this they would need to be geared much taller or rev to heaven (which I doubt) to get a similar top speed (which they do). Does anyone know if metro's are indeed geared taller and if their variators are a viable swap option once one has completed other performance enhancing mods?

[abe]

The variators are interchangeable. The Metro does have different rear final drive ratios. I would look them up but I'm lazy. You can go to www.ronayers.com and get the number of teeth for the Ruckus and Metro, remember the Metro comes in two flavors and one is the same as the Ruckus.

[chanito]

;D you are right the metro has a different rear end ratio, but they are not easy to change, the problem is that we need more power to pull a taller gear in the back, i mod the heck out of my variator, and i can not get it to the 8k (i installed a tach) and accel from 30 and up is slower than stock, however that was a trade in i was willing to make in order to cruise along at 42 @ 7500 in a 45 MPH strech of US1 i had to use to get to work, becouse at 38 the speed diff was just too much, so i need to install a CDI to get a little higher speed (more power), that said, it seems nobody cares about better brakes, but i think before we start thinking to go out and beat Abe's scoot, we should start finding a better fr brake system, hydrolics would be nice, and disc even better