What RPM to shift at?
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What RPM to shift at?
So when I start after stopping at a stop sign, my RPM goes through the roof because I hate starting slow. I have an Acura RL 2005 and want to try manual if it means I can get better starts and not have the engine almost redline. What is the best RPM to shift from first gear to second in order to get the fastest starts without wasting too much gas?
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What?
Faster starts will use more gas no matter what. You have an auto, just hold the pedal down and let the car shift. Letting it redline will get you the most out of each gear provided you don't have a modern turbo car.
How old are you? Stop racing from stop signs.
Faster starts will use more gas no matter what. You have an auto, just hold the pedal down and let the car shift. Letting it redline will get you the most out of each gear provided you don't have a modern turbo car.
How old are you? Stop racing from stop signs.
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Shift at redline... Red means moar power
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Neutral drop ftw.
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Your living in in the past man, you gotta contemporize.
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We had a guy on cherokeeforum saying the new wranglers were slow compared to his mid 90's XJ. What we found out was he was shifting it like his mid 90's XJ, not like a modern engine. If you shifted it properly, the wrangler accelerates about as fast as a 5th gen prelude (cornering is a different story).
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The answer is 42. [/thread]
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The transmission is smarter than you.
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Ford also "stole" the DOHC v6 formula from Honda, by putting a high revving DOHC v8 in every Mustang GT these days; Honda hasn't used the DOHC v6 since 2005 and the ONLY car to have it then was the NSX.
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The good old OHV days...
These days, low end torque isn't as easy to come across it seems...
Honda never really had it...
The only torquie Honda I know of is the old 2.5 in the Acura Vigor...
A couple of weeks ago, I was driving a GMC Yukon with the 5.3 V8... I punched the gas maybe a little more than half way, then immediately let off, the whole thing took me 1.0 second tops... I swear, that thing jumped off the ground and leaped like a grasshopper 15 feet!!!
I know, after driving 4 cylinders my whole life, it's kind of nice to hear a deep vroom, and be a whole vehicle length ahead in .5 seconds, haha...
Well, if you want low-end out of an RL, just be grateful you don't drive an F23 Accord or CL, those things have ZERO torque below 3,000 RPM, and I mean ZERO!!!
A 3.5 RL is somewhere in between, sadly, there isn't much you can do, or atleast anything that's cheap...
These days, low end torque isn't as easy to come across it seems...
Honda never really had it...
The only torquie Honda I know of is the old 2.5 in the Acura Vigor...
A couple of weeks ago, I was driving a GMC Yukon with the 5.3 V8... I punched the gas maybe a little more than half way, then immediately let off, the whole thing took me 1.0 second tops... I swear, that thing jumped off the ground and leaped like a grasshopper 15 feet!!!
I know, after driving 4 cylinders my whole life, it's kind of nice to hear a deep vroom, and be a whole vehicle length ahead in .5 seconds, haha...
Well, if you want low-end out of an RL, just be grateful you don't drive an F23 Accord or CL, those things have ZERO torque below 3,000 RPM, and I mean ZERO!!!
A 3.5 RL is somewhere in between, sadly, there isn't much you can do, or atleast anything that's cheap...
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Wrangler doesn't really need down low torque. If it does, you just slide that lever into the 4Lo position and you have all the torque in the world.
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The good old OHV days...
These days, low end torque isn't as easy to come across it seems...
Honda never really had it...
The only torquie Honda I know of is the old 2.5 in the Acura Vigor...
A couple of weeks ago, I was driving a GMC Yukon with the 5.3 V8... I punched the gas maybe a little more than half way, then immediately let off, the whole thing took me 1.0 second tops... I swear, that thing jumped off the ground and leaped like a grasshopper 15 feet!!!
I know, after driving 4 cylinders my whole life, it's kind of nice to hear a deep vroom, and be a whole vehicle length ahead in .5 seconds, haha...
Well, if you want low-end out of an RL, just be grateful you don't drive an F23 Accord or CL, those things have ZERO torque below 3,000 RPM, and I mean ZERO!!!
A 3.5 RL is somewhere in between, sadly, there isn't much you can do, or atleast anything that's cheap...
These days, low end torque isn't as easy to come across it seems...
Honda never really had it...
The only torquie Honda I know of is the old 2.5 in the Acura Vigor...
A couple of weeks ago, I was driving a GMC Yukon with the 5.3 V8... I punched the gas maybe a little more than half way, then immediately let off, the whole thing took me 1.0 second tops... I swear, that thing jumped off the ground and leaped like a grasshopper 15 feet!!!
I know, after driving 4 cylinders my whole life, it's kind of nice to hear a deep vroom, and be a whole vehicle length ahead in .5 seconds, haha...
Well, if you want low-end out of an RL, just be grateful you don't drive an F23 Accord or CL, those things have ZERO torque below 3,000 RPM, and I mean ZERO!!!
A 3.5 RL is somewhere in between, sadly, there isn't much you can do, or atleast anything that's cheap...
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I skimmed through the beginning of the thread, OP wants to take off fast, and shift low for better FE....
Not really possible with an RL, or really any Honda/Acura, so I offered what I could...
Not really possible with an RL, or really any Honda/Acura, so I offered what I could...
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All off road vehicles can benefit from low end torque. If you think the V6 that replaced the iconic 4.0 straight 6 is a better engine for a jeep I can find you about 1 million jeep owners who disagree. CAFE fuel standards are the only reason that switch was made. In 4WD LO my 4.0 doesn't even require input from the gas pedal, all you have to do is let up the clutch and it starts driving forward. If you try that in the modern wrangler you will most likely buck and stall because it doesn't have the torque where off roaders want it.
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Shift when your car sounds weird.
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I had a buddy in high school who bought a 1979 Saab 99 gl (although he thought it was an EMS). When he test drove it the kid he was buying it from told him he was "short shifting it" (it had no tach). His exact words were "you gotta let it go until the engine keeps getting louder but your not speeding up anymore, then shift it".
I'd suggest this method.
I'd suggest this method.
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RLX SH AWD, not just any regular RL
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Shift around 8300 or so.
Oh wait.. wrong forum!
Oh wait.. wrong forum!
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I had a buddy in high school who bought a 1979 Saab 99 gl (although he thought it was an EMS). When he test drove it the kid he was buying it from told him he was "short shifting it" (it had no tach). His exact words were "you gotta let it go until the engine keeps getting louder but your not speeding up anymore, then shift it".
I'd suggest this method.
I'd suggest this method.
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