wow, after not driving a stick for 24 years, or so (and then it was a VW Bug, not a muscle in it's powertrain body !) The '92 6-speed I find I'm driving just as cautiously ... shifting into the next gear at around 2K plus on the tach. When do most of you shift to the next gear ? Also, when you want to chirp the tires :) :) , just how do you do it ? In how many gears :) ?

 

Jim, come up to exit 91 on the GSP and I'll show you :)

 

I typically shift at 6,500RPM's in first through 4th. I can chirp my tires in 1st through 4th too. Push in the clutch, and drop down a gear or two, and light them up!-C.J.

 

Dude don't make him over'rev. :) Don't listen to C.J., he's got one of those weak LT5 engines that rev to 7000. ;)

With the LT1 you can shift at 6000 if you are racing. :)

 

Oh yeah, that's right, I almost forgot I had the LT5 thing, these 15 hour shifts at the GM Parts warehouse have been getting to me! Has anyone seen the 10153675 around? Numbers are floating in my head like crazy! :crazy:

 

i heard some people like to shift every 3000 revs?

 

Cool, I'm studying the Mr. Mojo tapes as we speak :)

 

My WOT on this baby can't be much more than 5800 :(

 

Enough of the tales......just shift when it feels good !!!!!!

 

I hear this guy is quite the driver! :D :D

My tach is off, so I shift at over 6,000 which is probably more like 5,600 or so.

 

Skip a gear or two in the process :) ? Happy Holidays !

 

you may not think so but it is.......I was smoking my tires one day for my friends and looked at the tach........well....it was buried as far as it could go and the rev limiter hadn't even kicked in yet (although I let up immediatley). These LT1's are strong motors. I raced a new T/A WS6 (my friend) (we were dead even (I gave him a head start and cuaght up) until I hit 3rd then I literally seemed to pull about 2-3 carlengths everytime! I was shifting at around 5700 (regular shifting.....not powershifting). Good luck w/ the new car! :cool: :cheers:

 

Anyone here also know how to chirp the tires at low speed? I've seen it a couple of times where a Camaro would be cruising out of a stop light and he can chirp into 2nd gear @ only 10mph! :confused: It can really look intimidating to hmmmm... lets say a Viper. :)

 

cool .. my buddy at work, sits right next to me, has a T/A WS6, and we joke about who gets the first ticket :)
Isn't the WS6 rated at about 335 HP ?

 

Mat it until the engine grenades, then on the next power shift, do it at 50 RPM below that point ;)

Seriously, it all depends on the situation, I guess - there's no need to rev it out of the power band, but you don't want to shift so early that your next gear is too far out of the powerband the other way.
-Matt

 

Pop the clutch at 4,000 rpm, you'll break them loose. :D

 

I've got a '92 6-speed and probably rev to 3,500 - 4,500 in most street "lazy" shifting situations. If you are in an aggressive mood you must consider 4,000 to be a MINIMUM rpm at all times. That means shifting just below the rev limiter (that kicks in at an indicated 5800) so the engine stays above that 4,000 rpm mark when you catch the next gear.

I was pretty conservative when I first got my car too. Didn't run it up above 5,000 rpm much at all. Now I pin it all the time. You know you are in the sweet part of the Corvettes power (4,000+) plus because you will feel the engine smooth out considerably. Let it do what it does best. But 2,000 is really choking it. I rev to 3,500 when I am pulling out of my driveway (after its been sitting in the cold all night). And as soon as I get 3 miles down the road I am up to 4,500. 10 miles and the tach is already going into redline.

Its a bulletproof engine and computer controlled. Nothing you can really do to hurt it.

STORY: You know I had a friend some years ago who had one of the straight 6 Celica GT's with that enormously high redline. He would never let it go over 3,000 rpms for years for fear of "something" that I certainly didn't understand. Then the car got stolen and the thief totalled it. He went to the junk yard and watched as a crane picked up the ruined car and dropped it on a pile of other cars. He came back from that and told me that as it was being dropped he thought ===>

"you know what is a damn shame ... all the years I owned it and I never even knew what she could do".

Justin

 

I do not shift based on RPM, in fact I dont even look at the tac when I shift. It depends on what I am doing, if I am just going to work (my car is a daily driver) I shift around 1500 or so. If I am racing I just let it wind up until I can feel the power falling off (around 4500 for my car) then I shift to next higher gear. I would say let your engine tell you when its time to shift and trust your instinct. Otherwise you spend to much time looking at the tach and not enough looking at the road.

Oh heck what do I know anyways !! :)

Keep Vettin!! :cool:

Rich

 

Thanks for the hints ... do you often skip a gear ?

 

Wow ... that early VW Bug shift pattern I'll have to "unlearn". 2,000 is too mild ! I love this place !