For some reason my search isn't working...

I was just wondering for around the town driving is it bad at all to drive the car around with overdrive off? I like having the "pep" of having the car stay in 3rd gear when cruisin at slower speeds. Obviously above like 50mph I turn it back on. Is this bad for the car or tranny at all? Thanks guys

 

It doesn't matter.

Just driving around town, keeping OD off keeps the trans from hunting back and forth between 3rd and OD.

Now, from searching 'driving overdrive off':
http://forums.maxima.org/4th-generat...overdrive.html
http://forums.maxima.org/4th-generat...overdrive.html
http://forums.maxima.org/4th-generat...overdrive.html
http://forums.maxima.org/4th-generat...drive-off.html
http://forums.maxima.org/4th-generat...overdrive.html
http://forums.maxima.org/4th-generat...ve-button.html
http://forums.maxima.org/4th-generat...drive-off.html
http://forums.maxima.org/4th-generat...ad-tranny.html
http://forums.maxima.org/4th-generat...sistently.html
http://forums.maxima.org/4th-generat...drive-off.html

...and that's just the first page.

 

maybe teh OP brokeded teh search function

 

I turn it off sometimes when i get sick of the idiots around me not keeping steady speeds. I have also done that in the canyon. Last time I ended up forgetting it off and without noticing was cruising with 80mph at pretty high RPM VQ is so refined....

 

Driving with the O/D off also puts less stress on the tranny, Whenever i run at the local dragstrip i run it with the O/D off..Always get better times as well, Not by a lot but a few tenths usually.

 

Unless you hit 120 in the quarter, turning the overdrive off does absolutely nothing for your quarter mile times.

You're probably trapping what, 80? 90? You're barely into the beginning of third then.

 

yep, overdrive puts less stress on the tranny. having a car with as high mileage as mine i leave it on all the time

the only thing that sucks is with my exhaust the first gears sound good and clean but when the OD kicks in it sounds like im driving a standard and i missed a gear since it suddenly drops from loud to quiet

 

yep...


its like the guy that insisted that running the ac on the track as hes waiting to run was ok...

 

you wanna see something really sad?

-mods: warpspeed y-pipe, HFC, cattman b-pipe, 00vi, shortram intake, ksport coilovers, heavy 2k3 rims
-removed spare tire, passenger, and all of rear seats.
-ran with DR mod and manual shifted with suprastick.

ran 5 times, best time was:

R/T: .330
60: 2.281
330: 6.435
1/8: 9.864
MPH: 72.44
1000: 12.766
1/4: 15.245
MPH: 90.22

main reason i have to say was due to the auto tranny. but doesn't really matter now...

 

When I lived where it was hilly and wasn't going much over 40mph for very long I drove with o/d off. If you get over 45mph(shift point usually for o/d) for long periods(1-3min) you are killing gas mileage. To keep the car from going from 4th to 3rd to 4th to 3rd to 4th on all the hills, or in constant stop and go traffic--turn o/d off! You get the idea.

 

If you had a .330 reaction time, Didn't you red light anyways ?

and yea, last time i ran the maxima it went 15.8 @ 84 mph But it was bone stock with almost bald tires.But from what G4nismo said, I dont the $1,000.00+ of work and parts is worth 6 tenths and 6 more mph.