Right anyone with a 5 speed knows it would take 10 times as long to get to
100MPH in 5th as it would take in 4th. But at 75MPH if I could shift to 6th
click on the cruise control and get instead of 11 MPG get 16 life would be
sweet. Thats my primary concern. at 75MPH I'm running close to 3k RPMS and
if I could drop that down to 1500 or even 2000 It would be nice.
Joe G.
<< Yup, absolutely right. Ive run quite a few simulation programs for
performance cars, I wrote the programs and they take into account
everything from gear ratios to the inertia generated from the spinning
gears, crank, etc etc. in other words they are VERY intense, and they
encompass 99% of every aspect of vehicle operation and properties. Anyway,
when running a corvette for top speed (stock vette by the way) and using
all 6 gears, the top speed actually occurs in 5th gear, this is becuase
the torque required from the engine to spin the drive train is to low at
that point. So from the simulation the corvette would actually SLOW DOWN
when it shifted into 6th, and according to the "while" loop used by the
program it would then down shift into 5th gear and accelerate again.
If you havent got the power to use it, why get it.
But it would be sweet none the less!
Clay >>
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