How often does your car see 5k RPMs and over?
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Re: How often does your car see 5k RPMs and over?
Alot of people don't like riding in the car with me but I relly don't drive that bad. I rag once or twice a day(redline! redline!), but most of my heavy driving is at the strip. I have hit the rev limiter twice(both times by accident missed a gear).
i was looking throught my manual couple of days ago and i have been following the suggested grear change speeds and when i do that i dont even see 2K and my gas millage has gone up too
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1-2 13 MPH
2-3 16 MPH
3-4 27 MPH
4-5 36 MPH
But i still take it up to 5k once every few days when i get a red light and a long staight away with no trafic, just to remind myself of what this engine can do.
.1-2 13 MPH
2-3 16 MPH
3-4 27 MPH
4-5 36 MPH
But i still take it up to 5k once every few days when i get a red light and a long staight away with no trafic, just to remind myself of what this engine can do.
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Originally posted by geo1317
i was looking throught my manual couple of days ago and i have been following the suggested grear change speeds and when i do that i dont even see 2K and my gas millage has gone up too.
1-2 13 MPH
2-3 16 MPH
3-4 27 MPH
4-5 36 MPH
But i still take it up to 5k once every few days when i get a red light and a long staight away with no trafic, just to remind myself of what this engine can do.
i was looking throught my manual couple of days ago and i have been following the suggested grear change speeds and when i do that i dont even see 2K and my gas millage has gone up too
.1-2 13 MPH
2-3 16 MPH
3-4 27 MPH
4-5 36 MPH
But i still take it up to 5k once every few days when i get a red light and a long staight away with no trafic, just to remind myself of what this engine can do.
as for the thread, pretty much everday she will go past 5k
Before getting my new clutch, every single time I started the car up 
After reading other post I know I am not the only one here that spends time in the higher RPM range. I have discovered in the last 3 days that there is nothing wrong with shifting into second gear @15 mph and third gear by 30 it is amazing how my gas mileage has improved. I have not been about 3500 rpm all week and it is quite refreshing to pamper the car.I think my engine likes my timid style better as well, I just hope I can continue to be so conservative once the clutch breaks in.
Pat
After reading other post I know I am not the only one here that spends time in the higher RPM range. I have discovered in the last 3 days that there is nothing wrong with shifting into second gear @15 mph and third gear by 30 it is amazing how my gas mileage has improved. I have not been about 3500 rpm all week and it is quite refreshing to pamper the car.I think my engine likes my timid style better as well, I just hope I can continue to be so conservative once the clutch breaks in.Pat
Originally posted by tifosiv122
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Joined: Jan 2002
Posts: 454
Originally posted by geo1317
i was looking throught my manual couple of days ago and i have been following the suggested grear change speeds and when i do that i dont even see 2K and my gas millage has gone up too.
1-2 13 MPH
2-3 16 MPH
3-4 27 MPH
4-5 36 MPH
But i still take it up to 5k once every few days when i get a red light and a long staight away with no trafic, just to remind myself of what this engine can do.
i was looking throught my manual couple of days ago and i have been following the suggested grear change speeds and when i do that i dont even see 2K and my gas millage has gone up too
.1-2 13 MPH
2-3 16 MPH
3-4 27 MPH
4-5 36 MPH
But i still take it up to 5k once every few days when i get a red light and a long staight away with no trafic, just to remind myself of what this engine can do.
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Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 191
Easily 5-6 times a day. I've got 102,000 miles btw. Toyota says they test their engines by revving them to redline 100,000 times and then tearing them apart to see what wear has taken place. If the Maxima engine is half that good, all this hard driving shouldn't be a big deal. My buddy's 89 turbo supra has 250,000 hard driven miles and still does fine.
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Depending on how I'm rolling not coming to a full stop at intersections and corners that damn automagic will downshift to second and before you can say "Maxima" I hit the rev limiter for a hard shift back up to third. This happens mainly because I do not come to a full stop and because I have a Stillen K&N Hi Flow set up I've lost a little bottom end torque. I have yet to launch off seriously from a stop cause with those Nitto 555 Extremes on the 17" Momos I'm afraid of wheel hop.
Every time I can!!!
Last night I was doing some testing of the J&S Ultra Safeguard box on the highway, I was doing 2nd to 3rd full throttle runs getting a chirp every time. I must have done 20 runs like that!
Last night I was doing some testing of the J&S Ultra Safeguard box on the highway, I was doing 2nd to 3rd full throttle runs getting a chirp every time. I must have done 20 runs like that!
I have an auto, so from 1st to second, all the time.
And since I got the MEVI, pretty much everythime i gas it. I LOVE to floor my car.
I'd say 10-20 times I hit redline on a good roadtrip (30-40 mile trip)
So am I really damaging my engine all that bad? I thought redline was there for a reason, and anything under that, provided you do your regular maintenance, is negligable.
I mean, obviously never going above 3k is better than always going to 6k, but how much life does it really take?
I've only heard of 2 or 3 blown engines on this forum. it seems they take everything we throw at them.
IanS
And since I got the MEVI, pretty much everythime i gas it. I LOVE to floor my car.
I'd say 10-20 times I hit redline on a good roadtrip (30-40 mile trip)
So am I really damaging my engine all that bad? I thought redline was there for a reason, and anything under that, provided you do your regular maintenance, is negligable.
I mean, obviously never going above 3k is better than always going to 6k, but how much life does it really take?
I've only heard of 2 or 3 blown engines on this forum. it seems they take everything we throw at them.
IanS
Originally posted by iansw
I have an auto, so from 1st to second, all the time.
And since I got the MEVI, pretty much everythime i gas it. I LOVE to floor my car.
I'd say 10-20 times I hit redline on a good roadtrip (30-40 mile trip)
So am I really damaging my engine all that bad? I thought redline was there for a reason, and anything under that, provided you do your regular maintenance, is negligable.
I mean, obviously never going above 3k is better than always going to 6k, but how much life does it really take?
I've only heard of 2 or 3 blown engines on this forum. it seems they take everything we throw at them.
IanS
I have an auto, so from 1st to second, all the time.
And since I got the MEVI, pretty much everythime i gas it. I LOVE to floor my car.
I'd say 10-20 times I hit redline on a good roadtrip (30-40 mile trip)
So am I really damaging my engine all that bad? I thought redline was there for a reason, and anything under that, provided you do your regular maintenance, is negligable.
I mean, obviously never going above 3k is better than always going to 6k, but how much life does it really take?
I've only heard of 2 or 3 blown engines on this forum. it seems they take everything we throw at them.
IanS
Originally posted by RapidMax
The problem is not the engine its the transmission that your killing my doing that. The engines are so strong that it doesn't matter but a lot of people have blown trannys at early mileage,
The problem is not the engine its the transmission that your killing my doing that. The engines are so strong that it doesn't matter but a lot of people have blown trannys at early mileage,
Re: How often does your car see 5k RPMs and over?
Originally posted by NYCe MaXiMa
Just wondering on how hard people drive here.
be honest
Just wondering on how hard people drive here.
be honest
Re: very rarely
Originally posted by max808
about once or twice a month. usually when somebody ticks me off and does something stipid on the road.
about once or twice a month. usually when somebody ticks me off and does something stipid on the road.
I try to keep my RPMs under 3k...don't really do any highway driving anymore, so I'm usually in 4th cruisin between 40 and 45...
Only time I rev between 5-6k is downshifting to pass...and I usually only go that high if I'm ****ed off at what's going on on the road.
Did it today in a very short drive that took 35 min thanks to farking Omaha midday traffic (where people think green lights mean take a quick nap, then accelerate slowly for three minutes on up to a dangerously exciting 5mph under the speed limit)
Only time I rev between 5-6k is downshifting to pass...and I usually only go that high if I'm ****ed off at what's going on on the road.
Did it today in a very short drive that took 35 min thanks to farking Omaha midday traffic (where people think green lights mean take a quick nap, then accelerate slowly for three minutes on up to a dangerously exciting 5mph under the speed limit)
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Considering that I have an auto. trans, my peak is about 4500rpm (when I'm 1st at a light on a 50mph road), but if I really wanted to I can do a nice kickdown to at least 5000rpm.
Overall my rpms range b/w 2500-4000rpm while driving
Overall my rpms range b/w 2500-4000rpm while driving