My car can rev higher than yours!
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All this talk of reving engines to high rpms my cars engine is ready to explode after 3500 thats why im getting it rebuilt w00t good luck to all u high reving cool people that i look up to. Now you can officially say im a dork.
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Originally Posted by Rolling Thundah
Talking about hi performance cars and good gas mileage is pure ghey! Name a 10 second car getting 30+ to the gallon? If so how much and who makes it?
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This one is simple: revving higher with the proper setup makes more power. That's all the reason I would need. Now, with my car, I've got a small turbo and always will, I'm going to run mild cams that keep the powerband in the stock range, and even though I've got my limiter set at 8500 I never shift above 7k because that's the end of my powerband. If I were to go with the dream setup I was thinking about a while back, I'd be running a huge turbo capable of flowing the air and holding boost to high rpm, aggressive cams, a sheetmetal intake, ported head with upgraded valvetrain, and I'd be revving to 9500 rpm because full boost would hit at 5500 and it would keep on making more power from there on up to the limiter.
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Originally Posted by Miles
hell with a big enough turbo i would be willing to bet you could get a 4 banger into the 10's and still run around town at 30mpg out of boost... granted it would be like driving a hyundai, but still
Thar car would probably drive like ass daily driving too
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Originally Posted by whtmustangt99
my red line is 5800 so and i think i hit peek hp right around the 5000 area, i could be mistaked though, i didnt get to keep the dyno paper 
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Max RPM = nothing. What I'm concerned with is what RPM range makes up my powerband. TQ monster V8 is just as useless as a HP monster Honda. If your powerband sucks a dick, who cares where in the RPM range it kicks in? Remember ladies, the real winner is area under the curve, not max HP/TQ.
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Originally Posted by BeQuietAndDrive
Because, when you drive a car, you can either:
A: Hardly press the gas, let the torque pull you around, and cruise around town.
B: Take the engine up into the higher RPM, run through the gears, be in the best possible gear at the right time for best acceleration, and have a fully involved driving experience.
A: Hardly press the gas, let the torque pull you around, and cruise around town.
B: Take the engine up into the higher RPM, run through the gears, be in the best possible gear at the right time for best acceleration, and have a fully involved driving experience.
what does being in the right rpm at any time have to do with reving to 8k? cant i do the same thing in my v8?
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Originally Posted by Frank
Max RPM = nothing. What I'm concerned with is what RPM range makes up my powerband. TQ monster V8 is just as useless as a HP monster Honda. If your powerband sucks a dick, who cares where in the RPM range it kicks in? Remember ladies, the real winner is area under the curve, not max HP/TQ.
