nice write up...and being a shop mgr....you see what people can do to rear ends everyday....no one has found a way to reprogram the ecu to recognize a higher gear...I was thinking 3.73 myself...but no one makes that gear for our cars...3.27 is possible as Jim tried this...there was a 3.43 I believe out there too, but again no way to reprogram...so, blue bullet...what do you think, is a heat treated flaw in the metal, or it spinning the wheels on wet payment and then hitting dry payment....or something like that...