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Originally Posted by Tcoat
Not all gears are created equal and without looking it up I believe there is a much larger range between 6th to 4th then 5th to 3rd. I don't think I have ever run into a situation where I had to go down two gears to accelerate though. Usually one gear is plenty for any passing needs I have while street driving. What RPMs are you cruising in to need to downshift 2 gears? If you are too low to start with then I could see needing to go down two but otherwise that is pretty extreme.
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About 2k rpms. I'm usually cruising in 5th at this point, but I tried 6th to get better mpg (probabl an invalid reason if I'm shifting down 2 gears to accelerate quickly anyway).