Is it different on every car? The car I currently drive is a Nissan March K13.
engiene?
Find out what revolution(RPM) your car makes the most power, and shift a bit after that.
Okay, thank you for the information.
depends on how you drive it….if you want to stay in first gear you can but you will hit cutoff one time. For normal driving I shift from 1st to 2nd at 2500rpms and 3000 for the other gears
Well, are you trying to go fast or just drive normally?
Let’s say I’m trying to go as efficient as possible
Normal cars get to max hp around 4500 rpm so shifting close to 6000 is the best when trying to get the max, in performance cars is higher depending on the engine, some engines have the redline at 6000, others at 8000 and rotary can get easily to 10000. Now if you want to make the car more economical, never shift over 3000, is kind of lost power and gas.
What are you talking about? What car hits it’s max horsepower output at 4500 RPM? My 5.0 keeps generating power all the way up to 6500 RPM and redlines at 7000 RPM. My torque however, maxes at 4250 RPM.
Like the stig’s cousin mentioned, if you are street raging with someone then shift around the rpm that the engine churns out max power (should be in the specifications). Else for a petrol engine, shift around 3-3.5k rpm which should be pretty smooth.
Are you racing, or are you commuting?
Valve float.
Are you serious? This is like common sense 101. If you’re racing, shift at redline. If you want to get the best fuel efficiency shift as short as you can without lugging the engine. During normal street driving I usually shift at 2000-2500 RPM. But that’s for my big V8. A smaller displacement engine can’t shift that short without lugging.
Because I read a post a while ago about Need for Speed teaching wrong things, and one of them is shift points. As far as I know before this post, keeping the car at maximum torque as you can get is the key of being fast, and therefore, keeping a car at first gear as much as possible is the best idea, since 1st gear makes the most torque multiplication, so shifting at redline before fuel cut is the best. But some people say it’s best to shift after it’s maximum horsepower according to the comments here, and now I’m confused.
I shift at 1500rpm in my petrol 1.6 4 cylinder no problem.
Go easy on him, he may be a standard transmission noob…like me.
I love cars, is that a problem?
Because this is a car community for everyone with an interest in cars.
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Is it different on every car? The car I currently drive is a Nissan March K13.
engiene?
Find out what revolution(RPM) your car makes the most power, and shift a bit after that.
Okay, thank you for the information.
depends on how you drive it….if you want to stay in first gear you can but you will hit cutoff one time. For normal driving I shift from 1st to 2nd at 2500rpms and 3000 for the other gears
Well, are you trying to go fast or just drive normally?
Let’s say I’m trying to go as efficient as possible
Normal cars get to max hp around 4500 rpm so shifting close to 6000 is the best when trying to get the max, in performance cars is higher depending on the engine, some engines have the redline at 6000, others at 8000 and rotary can get easily to 10000. Now if you want to make the car more economical, never shift over 3000, is kind of lost power and gas.
What are you talking about? What car hits it’s max horsepower output at 4500 RPM? My 5.0 keeps generating power all the way up to 6500 RPM and redlines at 7000 RPM. My torque however, maxes at 4250 RPM.
Like the stig’s cousin mentioned, if you are street raging with someone then shift around the rpm that the engine churns out max power (should be in the specifications). Else for a petrol engine, shift around 3-3.5k rpm which should be pretty smooth.
Are you racing, or are you commuting?
Valve float.
Are you serious? This is like common sense 101. If you’re racing, shift at redline. If you want to get the best fuel efficiency shift as short as you can without lugging the engine. During normal street driving I usually shift at 2000-2500 RPM. But that’s for my big V8. A smaller displacement engine can’t shift that short without lugging.
Because I read a post a while ago about Need for Speed teaching wrong things, and one of them is shift points. As far as I know before this post, keeping the car at maximum torque as you can get is the key of being fast, and therefore, keeping a car at first gear as much as possible is the best idea, since 1st gear makes the most torque multiplication, so shifting at redline before fuel cut is the best. But some people say it’s best to shift after it’s maximum horsepower according to the comments here, and now I’m confused.
I shift at 1500rpm in my petrol 1.6 4 cylinder no problem.
Go easy on him, he may be a standard transmission noob…like me.
I love cars, is that a problem?
Because this is a car community for everyone with an interest in cars.