What revs ?????
20 February 2009, 10:36 AM
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What revs ?????
This might be a stupid question but here it goes ... at 80mph what revs is your car doing in 5th gear.Mine is doing 4 1/2 thousand and it seems as if i need to change in to another gear ... is this about right ???????? cheers waz
20 February 2009, 12:14 PM
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Not so stupid me thinks, I was going to post it a few weeks ago but forgot 
In answer to your question then, mine is bang on 4k @ 80mph
Dno about right or wrong, there must be quite a few factors involved like wheel size and gearbox ratios for starters
In answer to your question then, mine is bang on 4k @ 80mph
Dno about right or wrong, there must be quite a few factors involved like wheel size and gearbox ratios for starters
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20 February 2009, 12:37 PM
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I agree with b13bat - 4k @ 80mph in 5th.
Strange, as all MY93-96 WRX's have a 0.825:1 fifth gear and 4.111:1 final drive - so yours should be at c.4k too
.... You haven't got really small 15 or 16" wheels on with really low profile tyres, or something? (Even if yours had a Type RA transmission in it, you'd be pulling 5k @ 80mph in 5th, so it can't even be that! ).
Strange, as all MY93-96 WRX's have a 0.825:1 fifth gear and 4.111:1 final drive - so yours should be at c.4k too
.... You haven't got really small 15 or 16" wheels on with really low profile tyres, or something? (Even if yours had a Type RA transmission in it, you'd be pulling 5k @ 80mph in 5th, so it can't even be that! ).
20 February 2009, 01:26 PM
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Cheers slip.
There you go OP... As eluded to, you should be pulling near 4k in 5th (3888rpm to be pricise).
So, something's up, and it's not your wheel/tyre combo, as you have Bugeye WRX 17" alloys - so if anything, your rolling circumference is actually likely to be greater than (or at least equal to) OEM anyway!
Even if it the rolling circumference was lesser by a few mm (or possibly cm), it wouldn't account for an increase of some 600rpm IMO anyway.
There you go OP... As eluded to, you should be pulling near 4k in 5th (3888rpm to be pricise).
So, something's up, and it's not your wheel/tyre combo, as you have Bugeye WRX 17" alloys - so if anything, your rolling circumference is actually likely to be greater than (or at least equal to) OEM anyway!
Even if it the rolling circumference was lesser by a few mm (or possibly cm), it wouldn't account for an increase of some 600rpm IMO anyway.
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