I am just wondering because after my conversion I have been shifting at 5-6k most of the time.

 

i shift under 3k

 

if i see a racing opportunity, i shift high but on normal driving, i take 1st gear to around 4ish and the rest between 2.5 and 3k...all depends on my mood...i've been in the cruise mood recently, but just changed 02 sensor and trying to see how well my car responds...

 

my car is too loud to go WOT

 

Didn't we have this thread a few weeks ago? it was like 4 pages long.

 

Lets see when I have the family in the car I shift first at about 3500 and the rest is just before 3000. I do cruise the highway in 4th gear all the way up to 85 before going to fifth. I just like having the response if I want it. When the family is not with me then the shift in first goes to like 4500-5000 depending on mood, second is about the same third and fourth is about 4000.

 

When I have my daughter in the car, I keep it between 2-3k...though now that she's getting older (just turned 4), she loves to hear the intake when I floor it.

"Your engine sounds really really cool!" - Leah

Other than that, I beat the hell out of it (take it to redline constantly)...only after my clutch is engaged entirely (bad bearings taught me a valuable lesson )

I've heard it's bad to put load on the engine at low RPM. What's the lowest "safe" engine speed that you can put load on? I keep it above 2k as a general rule, but is it safe to go down to 1.5k? 1k?

 

I shift at 3000, or more sometimes.

 

Since there is no gas left in phx....2500 topps Usually I need to fill up after 240miles but thats 95% street driving and most of the time it goes upward to 3000-3500 in my auto

 

I prefer the smooth, quiet low-rev driving, so I shift at maybe 1500-2500 in 1st, and wind the rest out to 3k tops, sometimes shifting at 2000-2500 depending on the conditions (uphill/downhill/etc)

 

Quiet? Ohhhh you must not have an exhaust, id rather rev more its actually quieter in the 3K range were you can hear just the intake doin the evil howl instead of the damn muffler droning under 2K rpms. If I drive extremly slow I get a headache from this stupid thing.

 

Yea same here i love the intake sound.

 

i redline it frequently, and almost never shift under 3000. i beat my girl bad

 

I shift at 2500 a couple days before the first of the month

After payday, I tend to rip it if it's not raining

Every now and then if I see a nicely hooked vehicle trying to rev with me, I'll drop it like it's hot, just to let people recognize that Maxima's not only look sick, but they can rip too...

 

Like I stole it.

 

Mine's 100% stock, in fact it's so damned quiet that my coworker revved his BMW (323i) at me, and I revved back... only I could barely hear my engine in comparison to his...

 

I usually shift between 3500-4500 rpm and cruise at about 75-85 mph on the fwy...