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Originally Posted by Myriad
This is an interesting discussion. Having a 2017 myself I also wonder at what RPM should I shift at for normal cruising. I've been driving my old Integra for 16 years and I know to shift her about 3K. It's instinctual by now. But I still have to think about what I'm doing with the 86. I've been shifting about 3 or 3.25 k, but I've been trying to run it higher, probably since I keep reading on this forum that it's a high revving engine and it's meant to revved. After the hundredth time I've read that it's got nothing until you go 4.5 K and up, I think it's influenced me try higher than I'd normally go. But I agree with you Jordanwolf, it sounds harsher than it needs to. I thought I was alone in that. I think I might shift back at 3 K again and save the higher RPMs for passing and merging maneuvers like I initially was doing. And I thought we were all just a bunch of high revving gear heads? Who knew we could be moderate?
Myriad
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There has been advice I have taken from this forum for sure, but I prefer to drive how it feels right, you
~feel~ me? And oh my god does the car feel much better at 5k+.. everything feels so solid/tight/precise like the car wants to be at those RPM's only, but of course everything in moderation and winter tires suck.