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Old 04-29-2012, 01:31 AM   #34
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Originally Posted by ichitaka05 View Post
Say the same thing after driving this car's AT. Your thought will change
i love my current manual so much, but when i went for a spin in the AT i choose it instead, i will have both a MT and one of the best AT in my garage, longer gears in the AT are a good upside to me cause i want a bit more power and the supercharger TRD is developing will give the car enough TQ to make up for the longer gears, plus have you ever been in a big turbo car with short gears? you spend too much time in the turbo lag area between shifts to have fun, and if i ever go turbo i dont want my boost to last longer through the gears


in my friends turbo lotus we found that shifting at 40-60-85-115 was too quick for the track, we put a smaller final drive, now the shifts are around 50-80-105-130, which is perfect

if we went supercharged we would have just raised the rev limit to achieve similar shift points
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