Redline on L98
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Redline on L98
While driving my vette, i was doing a pull, and accidently up shifted into netural from drive, not overdrive and floored it, i hit 5900rpm on accident, i know redline is 5500, anything i should be worried about? Mind you I'm an 85 with the cast iron heads.
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Stop trying to manually shift your car. GM spent a lot of time, with a few hundred eggheads working 40+ hours a week on this very problem, figuring out where your car would shift on its own for best performance at wide open throttle. You're just going slower if you do it yourself.
So much so that Motorweek actually got a better quarter mile time in the AUTOMATIC than they did the manual in 1985. A good man behind the stick in a manual should beat an automatic, but it won't be by much and it's all won or lost at the launch.
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One point of advice...
Stop trying to manually shift your car. GM spent a lot of time, with a few hundred eggheads working 40+ hours a week on this very problem, figuring out where your car would shift on its own for best performance at wide open throttle. You're just going slower if you do it yourself.
So much so that Motorweek actually got a better quarter mile time in the AUTOMATIC than they did the manual in 1985. A good man behind the stick in a manual should beat an automatic, but it won't be by much and it's all won or lost at the launch.
Stop trying to manually shift your car. GM spent a lot of time, with a few hundred eggheads working 40+ hours a week on this very problem, figuring out where your car would shift on its own for best performance at wide open throttle. You're just going slower if you do it yourself.
So much so that Motorweek actually got a better quarter mile time in the AUTOMATIC than they did the manual in 1985. A good man behind the stick in a manual should beat an automatic, but it won't be by much and it's all won or lost at the launch.
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One point of advice...
Stop trying to manually shift your car. GM spent a lot of time, with a few hundred eggheads working 40+ hours a week on this very problem, figuring out where your car would shift on its own for best performance at wide open throttle. You're just going slower if you do it yourself.
So much so that Motorweek actually got a better quarter mile time in the AUTOMATIC than they did the manual in 1985. A good man behind the stick in a manual should beat an automatic, but it won't be by much and it's all won or lost at the launch.
Stop trying to manually shift your car. GM spent a lot of time, with a few hundred eggheads working 40+ hours a week on this very problem, figuring out where your car would shift on its own for best performance at wide open throttle. You're just going slower if you do it yourself.
So much so that Motorweek actually got a better quarter mile time in the AUTOMATIC than they did the manual in 1985. A good man behind the stick in a manual should beat an automatic, but it won't be by much and it's all won or lost at the launch.
