Yea and you should probably make sure you have the same hand grips as the predator so your hold on the bars will be as close to the same as possible. :? Come on,, you can change all the gearing you want and you'll still get waxed by the Predator. Sorry, not trying to hurt anyones feelings. You can gear your quad however you want,, if you geared your Z like was said earlier,,youd still get beat by 7 or 8 if not worse cause the Z in nearly stock trim doesnt have the power to pull that gearing as hard in acceleration,,so,, youd probably get beat worse,,try it and see. When I pumped my Z,,it slammed the limiter in 5th,, so since a ignition box isnt ready yet,,I went up one in the front,, the motor has plenty of power to pull it and it didnt hurt acceleration at all,, actually seemed to help it cause I'm not grabbing gears as fast and its just torquing through each gear and now doent hit the limiter. Gear it how you want,, you either pay for it on one end or the other. I like mine to be geared so its JUST OFF the limiter in top of 5th. If I could put it on a dyno I'd set the gearing up so I was peaking at the top of the power curve in 5th. Thats how I'd set it up for recreational riding like I do. 8)