Engine RPM’s while passing
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Usually 3k as that is what it cruises at, and most of my passing is done on the highway (a 5S-FE isn't capable of passing on 2 lane road). Acceleration usually involves sweeping past 5k and sometimes hitting 6k to wring out what it doesn't have.
My Acura in signature -- automatic drops down a gear and revs immediately to 3000-4500 rpms -- if not more. Depends how hard I stand on it and how long. I normally just putt putt my Subaru and Ram around city driving and back roads. The Acura goes on road trips for reason.
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Wife's Audi is a stick, has a 2.0 turbo and sees 6500 rpm everytime I drive it. The fed tune VAG 2.0 turbos with a stick pull beyond the redline. My Elanta has a 1.6 turbo and I take it a little over 6 all the time. RPM doesn't bother me. When I was a mechanic at a Honda dealer, I liked when I got a chance to drive a Civic Si and pull it to 8K RPM.
The 3.0TDI doesn't really drop down.
Boost comes on and it pulls like a train at 2200 RPM.
Boost comes on and it pulls like a train at 2200 RPM.
I didn't have the turbo-four BMW 328i long enough to recall exactly. Seems to me I used to hit about 4500 rpm in passing. About the same in the N/A four in the 2011 Regal.
With the '16 Buick LaCrosse, I think it runs up toward 3500 -- the car is still new to me, and my attention has been on the visual representation of the tach shown in the Head-up display rather than the number in the tach itself.
With the '16 Buick LaCrosse, I think it runs up toward 3500 -- the car is still new to me, and my attention has been on the visual representation of the tach shown in the Head-up display rather than the number in the tach itself.
The wife and I are riding up the coast. Yesterday I was on the '20 S 1000 RR M, and briefly saw the rev-limiter in an effort to keep up with the wife on the old, heavily modded 'Busa. So about 14.6k RPM. This wasn't really a pass, as we were just testing roll-on performance between the two bikes, on a section of road with no other traffic.
In my gen 1 EB f150, if you floored it to pass it'd try to do 5500+ before shifting - way past the torque curve. Truck was faster if you let up slightly at around 4500 and let it shift. My gen 2 EB w/10 speed shifts just shy of 5000, maybe 4950. I think ford figured out that was the best way to change ratios and stay in the fat part of the torque curve. Shifting at a not so dramatic rpm surely isn't impressive but it yields speed in a hurry especially with the 10 speed.
Most of my passing is at 60 so it drops 2 gears and shifts early because I mostly do "safe" passes that don't require full throttle, probably 4000rpm.
Most of my passing is at 60 so it drops 2 gears and shifts early because I mostly do "safe" passes that don't require full throttle, probably 4000rpm.
If by pass you mean, pull out in the oncoming lane to overtake a slower vehicle, I can't recall the last time I did that. At least 5 if not more than 10 years ago. No 2 lane roads around here with enough room to pass or would bother to since there is a stop light or sign a mile or two ahead anyway.
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Since I have a manual and a turbo with torque flat from 2000-4500 rpm I ususally wont rev past 5K
On My Nissan QR25DE Id run it to the fuel cutoff or near redline
Most of my passes are "illegal" across a double yellow in a 2 lane highway tring to get to work in under 1 hour on a 35min commute.
Passing slow moving phone doodlers and snoozers going 40 on a 55. I drop back a bit ( ~4 car lengths) then
second gear to redline up to the guys bumper then snap out make the pass then get back in line fast.
So that's a 40- 80 mph acceleration.
Since I have a manual and a turbo with torque flat from 2000-4500 rpm I ususally wont rev past 5K
On My Nissan QR25DE Id run it to the fuel cutoff or near redline
Most of my passes are "illegal" across a double yellow in a 2 lane highway tring to get to work in under 1 hour on a 35min commute.
Passing slow moving phone doodlers and snoozers going 40 on a 55. I drop back a bit ( ~4 car lengths) then
second gear to redline up to the guys bumper then snap out make the pass then get back in line fast.
So that's a 40- 80 mph acceleration.
I paid for the whole tachometer, I'm gonna use it!
Originally Posted by Skippy722
I paid for the whole tachometer, I'm gonna use it!
This. I've never floored my Suburban... No need to, but when I'm in the Escape I floor it a lot and I do a lot of passing on two lane roads. I don't always stick to the passing zone but I have to plan it out carefully given that it's such a slow car. As for the RPM, well, all the way up haha.
I paid for the whole tachometer, I'm gonna use it!
This. I've never floored my Suburban... No need to, but when I'm in the Escape I floor it a lot and I do a lot of passing on two lane roads. I don't always stick to the passing zone but I have to plan it out carefully given that it's such a slow car. As for the RPM, well, all the way up haha.
WOT in the 99 MGM shifts just before 5k RPMs as I just tested this on an on-ramp today...
Originally Posted by javacontour
I might touch 6k in the Mazda 3. Grand Marquis, I have no idea as there is no tach. Now I'm curious and need to put my ELM327 connector and run torque to gather some "data" while I give her an Italian tune up.
Originally Posted by javacontour
I might touch 6k in the Mazda 3. Grand Marquis, I have no idea as there is no tach. Now I'm curious and need to put my ELM327 connector and run torque to gather some "data" while I give her an Italian tune up.
Originally Posted by Cujet
In the numerous cars I rent, the RPM during a passing event is always near redline. Generally just under 6000 RPM.
In my previous car, a Turbocharged S2000 AP2, Redline was originally 8200, but the tune raised it to 8600. I hit that regularly.
8600? Talk about a blender motor!
In the numerous cars I rent, the RPM during a passing event is always near redline. Generally just under 6000 RPM.
In my previous car, a Turbocharged S2000 AP2, Redline was originally 8200, but the tune raised it to 8600. I hit that regularly.
8600? Talk about a blender motor!
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Originally Posted by Alfred_B
6 to 7k on two lane routes.
Originally Posted by Skippy722
I paid for the whole tachometer, I'm gonna use it!
Originally Posted by Char Baby
My 4 bangers usually hit/surpass 6 grand.
Originally Posted by skyactiv
Wife's Audi is a stick, has a 2.0 turbo and sees 6500 rpm everytime I drive it. The fed tune VAG 2.0 turbos with a stick pull beyond the redline. My Elanta has a 1.6 turbo and I take it a little over 6 all the time. RPM doesn't bother me. When I was a mechanic at a Honda dealer, I liked when I got a chance to drive a Civic Si and pull it to 8K RPM.
And then we have posts asking, "why can't I find cars that last more than 200,000 miles."
6 to 7k on two lane routes.
Originally Posted by Skippy722
I paid for the whole tachometer, I'm gonna use it!
Originally Posted by Char Baby
My 4 bangers usually hit/surpass 6 grand.
Originally Posted by skyactiv
Wife's Audi is a stick, has a 2.0 turbo and sees 6500 rpm everytime I drive it. The fed tune VAG 2.0 turbos with a stick pull beyond the redline. My Elanta has a 1.6 turbo and I take it a little over 6 all the time. RPM doesn't bother me. When I was a mechanic at a Honda dealer, I liked when I got a chance to drive a Civic Si and pull it to 8K RPM.
And then we have posts asking, "why can't I find cars that last more than 200,000 miles."
When I very rarely drive my girlfriend's car I don't like to pass. I treat the gas pedal like an egg shell since it's a Hyundai 2.4 gdi and it could seize up at any time. It won't be while I'm driving it.
In the company work truck (2005 Silverado 4wd with a 4.8, loaded with weight in the back) when I pass or merge I have never used more than 3/4 throttle but somehow it still usually downshifts a couple gears and winds to 5500rpm plus before I back off. Redline is 6000rpm I think. It feels like it wants to go whether I really needed it to or not. With 200k miles and 8200 engine hours I don't like to run it too hard but it seems to like it.
In the company work truck (2005 Silverado 4wd with a 4.8, loaded with weight in the back) when I pass or merge I have never used more than 3/4 throttle but somehow it still usually downshifts a couple gears and winds to 5500rpm plus before I back off. Redline is 6000rpm I think. It feels like it wants to go whether I really needed it to or not. With 200k miles and 8200 engine hours I don't like to run it too hard but it seems to like it.
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Originally Posted by atikovi
Originally Posted by Alfred_B
6 to 7k on two lane routes.
Originally Posted by Skippy722
I paid for the whole tachometer, I'm gonna use it!
Originally Posted by Char Baby
My 4 bangers usually hit/surpass 6 grand.
Originally Posted by skyactiv
Wife's Audi is a stick, has a 2.0 turbo and sees 6500 rpm everytime I drive it. The fed tune VAG 2.0 turbos with a stick pull beyond the redline. My Elanta has a 1.6 turbo and I take it a little over 6 all the time. RPM doesn't bother me. When I was a mechanic at a Honda dealer, I liked when I got a chance to drive a Civic Si and pull it to 8K RPM.
And then we have posts asking, "why can't I find cars that last more than 200,000 miles."
I will either long be bored of the vehicle or the salt will have given it cancer long before I get to 200k miles. If I wanted a dull anodyne appliance on 4 wheels that takes its sweet time to get up to passing speed I would have kept my Caliber or bought one of the other truly uninspiring vehicles on the market.
Originally Posted by Alfred_B
6 to 7k on two lane routes.
Originally Posted by Skippy722
I paid for the whole tachometer, I'm gonna use it!
Originally Posted by Char Baby
My 4 bangers usually hit/surpass 6 grand.
Originally Posted by skyactiv
Wife's Audi is a stick, has a 2.0 turbo and sees 6500 rpm everytime I drive it. The fed tune VAG 2.0 turbos with a stick pull beyond the redline. My Elanta has a 1.6 turbo and I take it a little over 6 all the time. RPM doesn't bother me. When I was a mechanic at a Honda dealer, I liked when I got a chance to drive a Civic Si and pull it to 8K RPM.
And then we have posts asking, "why can't I find cars that last more than 200,000 miles."
I will either long be bored of the vehicle or the salt will have given it cancer long before I get to 200k miles. If I wanted a dull anodyne appliance on 4 wheels that takes its sweet time to get up to passing speed I would have kept my Caliber or bought one of the other truly uninspiring vehicles on the market.
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