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When to shift?
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05-26-2004, 12:09 PM
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Re: When to shift?
what is it?
a 1.8t? what year? if he's racing, shift at redline. end of story... |
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05-26-2004, 12:20 PM
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Re: When to shift?
WHAT? 1200? ARE you kidding? The turbo wont even spool that low.
To answer your original question, my turbos don't spool till 2500, but that is really determined by the size of your turbo(s) and the air moving through them. If you get intake and exhaust, downpipe and other mods, the turbo will spool faster. Regardless, there are equations to figure out ideal shift points, on my car, some of them even worked out to be past redline(but you don't want to do that) so when in doubt, just take it to redline in every gear if you are trying to race. If you are trying to get good gas mileage, shift at 1500 or whatever your lowest point is.
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05-26-2004, 12:23 PM
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Re: When to shift?
hes a newb, dont worry about him. anyway, what you want to find out, is where the peak horsepower is, then shift past that, and find out where you can shift so that it lands right before your peak power, so theres no lag
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05-26-2004, 01:18 PM
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Re: When to shift?
what's the redline?
shift there... |
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05-26-2004, 01:27 PM
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Re: When to shift?
it's a car.
he doesn't know shit about it, obviously... why would you shift at anything but a very high rpm (or redline) when racing... anyone is going to tell you that you want to shift at the power peak (or at redline, to keep the revs above X rpm when they drop down for the next gear) running to redline ensures that the revs will be above his spooling RPM's... IE. shift at 5k, it'll drop to 2k (this is theoretical) shift at 5700, it'll drop to almost 3k see what i mean? |
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05-26-2004, 01:35 PM
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Re: When to shift?
i shift at 7.5k
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05-26-2004, 01:40 PM
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Re: When to shift?
and you don't drive a 1.8t vw...
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05-26-2004, 01:50 PM
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Re: When to shift?
fer shizzle.
if your dude is confused, tell him to come here and we'll set him straight. or go to the vw forum, or www.vwvortex.com, or www.ohiovw.com very insightful people |
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05-26-2004, 01:56 PM
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Re: Re: When to shift?
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05-26-2004, 01:58 PM
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Re: When to shift?
what was that? your blow off?
or the sound of a 1.8t exploding at 7.5k? |
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05-26-2004, 02:16 PM
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Re: When to shift?
well, my bov is a lil louder than a shhhhh. so yes, its his engine blowing up
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05-26-2004, 03:12 PM
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