Originally Posted by
FoxHondaRider
You close minded fuck. Listen up! Extra revs regardless of making more power there if you can hold decent power in even higher RPM it is far better for the track. Spoon did this with the B16B. The one stock and the other went to 11k. On a track having the extra revs was very beneficial. Where the other car would have to shift into the next gear then back down the other car would wrap out the tach staying in the same gear and it would pull ahead. How is the NSX an overpriced Honda? When it was released the damn thing compete with Ferrari's for how much less?
The only benefit of having extra rpms is that you can take advantage of higher gearing to give it better acceleration as you pass peak torque. But say for example, your peak power is at 7k but you can spin it to 10k and by that time at 10k the curve has dropped off so bad that you are making the same power you did at say 4k. So even if you shifted that high you probably would overshoot your powerband when you went into the next gear. So it would be pointless to go that high.
You keep the rpms as close to the power band as possible. You dont try and see if you can dent the underside of your hood with a piston.