Friend of mine just got a car exactly like mine, and want to tell him everybodies opinion on this. Normally I'm shifting at around 7500 under hard acceleration, and I've heard of people shifting as early as 7000 and as late as 8200 before.

 

shift when you hit the rev limiter

 

7800-8000 everytime.

i figure these stock internals dont make any real usable power beyond that anyway.

 

I'de just shift when I started to feel a power difference. or you can go ahead and take it to 8k then when you hit the next gear you should be pretty close to hitting into vtec. whatever works. just tell your friend to take it to the track see what rpm's give him the best times.

 

i usually hit around 7800

 

I usually take up to 8k

 

depends on the gaer

1st - 8000
2nd- 8200
3rd - 8300
4th - don't need to shift higher

 

1st gear - 7900-800
2nd gear - 8000
3rd gear - 7900
4th gear - 8000
5th gear - ****


Ys-1 tranny.....It doesn't matter how much you think you can keep up...with that gsr tranny it's gotta go the whole way on the real opponents...

 

y1 cable with ls 5th gear

1st 9500
2nd 9500
3rd 9500
4th 9500
ls 5th too scared to take it past 6500 . needle buried .

 

my shift light is set at 8.2k but keep in mind. if your redlining every gear all day your going to get mad valve float and trust me, its not cheap to get your valves adjusted.