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Nope peak acceleration does not happen near redline, maximum power does not mean maximum acceleration. Power is acceleration times speed. Acceleration is force over mass, and the force is the radius of your wheel times the torque coming out of the driveshaft.
If the car weighs just 100 pounds less, in a 2500 pound context, and then they make 1st gear shorter by 5%, we are changing acceleration by 10%, yet I doubt a human being can stare at the tach and tell you what is going on. A 10% difference is almost as big as the difference between the low speed and high speed cams on the S2000.
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