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Originally Posted by ermax

How does the car feel sluggish when cruising? I agree with Decep. Why spin high revs for literally no reason other than to put extra wear on the engine and burn extra fuel. I run 6th at 50 even. If I anticipate the need to accelerate I will run a lower gear but not if I’m cruising for 15mins at a time. A big part of why the auto guys get better MPG is because the auto isn’t a dummy cruising at 35mph turning 4500rpm.

Originally Posted by ermax

Exactly. It’s really very simple. If you’re in top gear at high speeds then you can’t avoid the high revs. I’m just pointing out that 4500 at just 35mph while “cruising” is just unnecessary wear.

Originally Posted by ermax

Dang really? I’m never going to shift until I hit redline going forward.

Anyways, there is absolutely no way you can tell me there is no extra wear at all what so ever at 4K vs 2k. Regardless of extra oiling.

Originally Posted by ermax

My thought exactly. But apparently people do it all day long. People say it sounds cooler and they are ready to accelerate in an emergency. You know like if someone gets sick of you hogging the left hand lane and decides to try to pass you in the right lane. I mean you have to be ready for an emergency like that. You can’t let someone pass you on the right. Right? Hahaha

IMO the car sounds like ass at 4K. Resonates like it’s ready to throw a rod through the block. 4K in an S2000 sounds cool. Not on the FA20 though.

Originally Posted by ermax

I never moved the posts. I’ve always maintained that cruising at high RPMs (I was originally saying 4500 at 35mph, you said 4000) when a simple upshift would take it back down is unnecessary. The auto doesn’t keep you where you need for max accelerate. It keeps it as low as possible. When you need to accelerate it then puts it where it needs to be for acceleration. My point was, the auto isn’t a dummy. It doesn’t cruise at 4500 if it can do it at 2000. It isn’t redundant because I’m moving goal posts. It’s because I’ve said the same thing, don’t cruise high if you don’t have to for like a week now. Hahaha

I stand by my statement that there is extra wear at higher RPMs. I don’t think a single engineer on this planet would disagree on that either. The only thing debatable is how much extra wear.

Heal and toe braking, double clutching at revs and all those other super fun things cause more extra wear than driving at 4500 rpms ever would.