I know this doesn't belong hea, but more people come in hea..I usually drive around 45mph on gear 5 and RPM at around 2500 or sometimes even 6th gear..at the same speed...is it safe to drive at 45 on 6th?

Originally posted by Miltown_Racer
I usually drive around 45mph on gear 5 and RPM at around 2500 or sometimes even 6th gear..at the same speed...is it safe to drive at 45 on 6th? I shift around 3000 rpms most of the time. On the freeway, I cruise at 80mph @ ~4000rpm.
Originally posted by Miltown_Racer
I know this doesn't belong hea, but more people come in hea..It's so much easier to feel good about moving threads when people say stuff like this. ;) Moving to Cars We Drive.

Originally posted by Miltown_Racer
I know this doesn't belong hea, but more people come in hea..I usually drive around 45mph on gear 5 and RPM at around 2500 or sometimes even 6th gear..at the same speed...is it safe to drive at 45 on 6th?

Well, in the city I drive about 45-50 mph in 4th at about 2300 RPM. I don't shift into 5th until I hit at least 50, in that case I am running at 1800 RPM. If I were you I would not drive at 45MPH in 6th, 5th maybe, 6th no. When I am on the freeway I drive at 75-80MPH in 5th gear doing about 3000RPM.

thanx...y'all....

Lets see. With the VR4's I am usually in the 2K ranges going about 35 mph in second gear around town. The Delorean is right about the same RPM range but in 3rd.

Hey Yogs, Have you ever taken yourself (Or anyone else for that matter) out with the doors of you Delorean?

Usually 6000RPM but 9000RPM at times.

Originally posted by Porsche
Hey Yogs, Have you ever taken yourself (Or anyone else for that matter) out with the doors of you Delorean?

Its surprising but those gull wing doors take very little room.

The couple of times I've seen them opened in real life (not in BttF), I was surprised that they pretty much go straight up.

i usually cruise at 45mph @ 2000rpm in 3rd in the ZR1. Freeway is 70 mph in 6th @ 1500 RPM. the '79 is usually in its tallest (third) gear with higher RPM, because of the 3:73 gears.

Around town, I usually do 40-45 MPH in 5th. Dunno the RPM's cause the stinking thing didn't come with a tach, but it's low.

i gots a truck, pathfinder to be exact, and i usually cruise around town at ~ 40 in fifth at about 1500 RPM

But sometimes i redline that poorl little V6 at 6 just to beat people off the line, ...that's fun. Problem is, that thing is geared so fuckin low in first and second, it isnt even funny.

I do alot of freeway driving...mostly on the job. My average speed is 70-80 depending on the flow of traffic. Since I was blessed (ha!) with a 3 speed automatic, my rpms run higher so I average between 2700 and 3300 approximately.

i cruise at around 35mph @ just over 2000rpm in 4th in town

40MPH @ 3000RPM in Drive (I usually use my 607 around town and that is an Auto)- of course put it into tiptronic and it's a different story when I am in the Ford Courier I go at about 30MPH @ 3500RPM in 3rd gear, my 2002 and Mustang don't get much street use........

4k if i'm just driving in traffic is about normal. If i'm driving back roads never below 6k if i can do it :)

I used 3rd and 4th gear the most.

I cruise around town at about 40mph and I run at about 2100rpms in 4th gear.

The few times I do highway driving it runs at about 3500 rpms in 5th gear doing 70 mph.

I usually use 3rd and 4th gear the most around town, but use 2nd when I want fast acceleration!!! :devil:

the thing with this thread is, that we dunno what everyones idle, and redline is, sure some do about 1500 rpm, that may seem low to some, but high for thers,


i gotta 302 clevo, idle about 500-1000 depends on temp of hte car, hotter, higher, and redline is 4600, revs out about 5500\


i do 60 kays (about 35 mph) about 1500 in third 93 spd auto), 80 kays at 2000 and 100 kays (60 mph) at 3000.

it dpeends on soo many things

Originally posted by AzAzeL
the thing with this thread is, that we dunno what everyones idle, and redline is, sure some do about 1500 rpm, that may seem low to some, but high for thers,


i gotta 302 clevo, idle about 500-1000 depends on temp of hte car, hotter, higher, and redline is 4600, revs out about 5500\


i do 60 kays (about 35 mph) about 1500 in third 93 spd auto), 80 kays at 2000 and 100 kays (60 mph) at 3000.

it dpeends on soo many things

Well, my LeBaron idles at 900 RPMs and it's max is 7000 RPMs.

I usually cruise about 2500 rpms, and I shift about 3500 rpms. If I'm playin around I shift about 5000, if I'm racing I shift about 7000 :)

Originally posted by Z06Lover
4k if i'm just driving in traffic is about normal. If i'm driving back roads never below 6k if i can do it :)


Is that in a 4 cyl.?? My poor z-24 v6 sounds like it's gonna have a heart attack at 4k rpm's. I think I redline at 6.5k(or maybe it's 7.5k) but my stupid tach only works half of the time(although sometimes if I smack the dash realllllly hard, it will come back to life) Daily driving my car shifts at 2500 rpm's in every gear. 70-75 mph is 3000 rpm.

BTW: What kind of engineer are you???