Miata Mailing List: June 1999, Message #128

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I don't know what the HP and torque curves are like in your Civic, but in
the Miata I find a big drop off between 6500 and the limiter anyway- I would
recommend shifting as soon as you hit that area. A good quick shift into 3rd
around 6700 would keep you in the peak power band and probably propel you
faster than riding the engine deep into the red even if it had no limiter,
in my newbie humble opinion. And I for one am glad the limiter is there-
I've found it too many times while in the "heat of the battle" as it saved
me from winding it too far. Perhaps some more miles under the belt and it'll
be more natural for me : )

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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Lu <ataym@yahoo.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <miata@list.miata.net>
Date: Tuesday, June 01, 1999 8:46 PM
Subject: Doing more than 60mph in 2nd


>Was coming up a hill after waiting 30 min to cross the
>river on my way home.
>
>It was sweet to see the rest of the traffic lagged
>behind. By loosing the black Prelude, I looked down to
>read 7,500 RPM @ 65 mph in 2nd gear.
>
>:-) It was my daily driver Civic - about 500 RPM into
>the red zone and have yet another 1000RPM before the
>tach meter ends.
>
>If I were driving miata, the fuel would have been cut
>off at somewhere between 58mph and 60mph, making the
>Prelude running into my rear end. Or the older Rx-7
>would have buzzed loud at similar speed. Well, I think
>my engine is loud enough to let me know what's
>happening - and, I'm sure I know what's happening.
>
>If I were to achieve 60+mph in a miata on 2nd gear, it
>has to be shifted out of 2nd and let the momemtum do
>the trick of going over 60mph before engage the car
>into 3rd. I don't like that fuel cut off "feature"!
>
>For us software folks, it means "bug"! And, as said,
>the effect is actually dangerous!
>
>Paul
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>mYata
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