Shifting habits -- what's yours?
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Me too. I don't know why everyone shifts so low??? It's like they want to save their engines!!! J/K! But yeah, I like shifting higher, gives you that extra "go power" when you hit the gas again!!! (And I like to hear my exhaust!!!!
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RE: Shifting habits -- what's yours?
ORIGINAL: md420
That aint anything, i was running a p08 base map with a p30 rev limiter and red line. I could peg that tach out like nothing.
That aint anything, i was running a p08 base map with a p30 rev limiter and red line. I could peg that tach out like nothing.
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Me too. I don't know why everyone shifts so low??? It's like they want to save their engines!!! J/K! But yeah, I like shifting higher, gives you that extra "go power" when you hit the gas again!!! (And I like to hear my exhaust!!!!)
Me too. I don't know why everyone shifts so low??? It's like they want to save their engines!!! J/K! But yeah, I like shifting higher, gives you that extra "go power" when you hit the gas again!!! (And I like to hear my exhaust!!!!
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apparently, i shift like a little old lady.
I was looking at my tach tonight, and I was consistently shifting at 3,500 rpm. I even shifted at 2,000 rpm into fifth one time inside the city limits. lol.
I was looking at my tach tonight, and I was consistently shifting at 3,500 rpm. I even shifted at 2,000 rpm into fifth one time inside the city limits. lol.
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ORIGINAL: ef4life
my dx doesn't have a tach and autometers are gawdy. looking for ef cluster with tach if anyone has one.
my dx doesn't have a tach and autometers are gawdy. looking for ef cluster with tach if anyone has one.
I'm afraid every shift is pretty much giddy-up. 4000-4500 for reserved driving and 5500-6000 for slower cars move to the right please. The fun thing is timing a light so that I don't stop and taking 2nd gear from 2000-6000 before a shift. That really is a long gear.
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In my Civic, I generally shift around 3k RPM. I avoid excessive RPM for gas reasons and rev it high enough to avoid lugging. I have never taken the Civic to redline and I really don't intend to. I has no power and as you rev it up, it just sounds like a lot of metal moving around and it does not have that, 'put you in the seat' factor. In my other car, I try to shift at 3k RPM, but I find 5-8k is where I normally shift.
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RE: Shifting habits -- what's yours?
yea' that movie is gay for mainly that reason, i shift my car a between 3500-4000 grand, thats what i have always done,plus tats what an auto civic shifts at nomatter what...lol, plus in that movie, dont you think it would've been alittle harder to restore the totaled supra, and does nos really blow a car up like that. jk lol