i heard from someone that i'm not allowed to use 5th gear if my car is supercharged?

is that true?

does that hold true with turbo charged cars too?

- Rob

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by mushu315 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i heard from someone that i'm not allowed to use 5th gear if my car is supercharged?

is that true?

does that hold true with turbo charged cars too?

- Rob</TD></TR></TABLE>
Nope, just some dumbass spreading bullshit.

 

yep.... if you couldnt use 5th gear... itd really suck dude... it would totally crap on your higher speeds... what dummy told you that?

 

whoever told you that must be a few logs short of a campfire.....this board is full of people running turbos and SC's and I garantee they are using ALL their gears! The only thing you should consider is upgrading your clutch to handle the extra power...

 

lol... some people get some weird *** info...

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by hondainspired &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">lol... some people get some weird *** info... </TD></TR></TABLE>

haha - some of it even slips into HT from time to time.

Long/pedal to the floor high load pulls in 5th gear with nitrous, supecharging or turbo will heat up combustion chamber/exhaust temps.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by mushu315 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i heard from someone that i'm not allowed to use 5th gear if my car is supercharged?


- Rob</TD></TR></TABLE>

you should ask him to explain Exactly why you can't use 5th gear..

Tell everybody that guy knows.. . not to listen to him

 

how gullible can you be

 

it was probably him who thinks u cant use 5th but he didnt wanna sound like a dumbass so he said someone told him

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by mushu315 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i heard from someone that i'm not allowed to use 5th gear if my car is supercharged?

is that true?

does that hold true with turbo charged cars too?

- Rob</TD></TR></TABLE>

its true. but u can solve this problem by adding stickers. by adding stickers to ur car, it creates more power eliminating the use of 5th gear to make the same power.

 

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its true. but u can solve this problem by adding stickers. by adding stickers to ur car, it creates more power eliminating the use of 5th gear to make the same power.</TD></TR></TABLE>


HAHAHAHA.....that's funny! Ilove it

The ironic part is that it sounds just crazy enough to answer the dummy that told the guy he couldn't use 5th gear..LOL

 

that's messed up, i was asking an innocent question and i get ripped by 10 guys.
nah, someone did say that to me... and i tried looking on jackson-racing.com and all the dyno test were at 4th gear.
so i wasn't sure

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by mushu315 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">that's messed up, i was asking an innocent question and i get ripped by 10 guys.
nah, someone did say that to me... and i tried looking on jackson-racing.com and all the dyno test were at 4th gear.
so i wasn't sure </TD></TR></TABLE>

don't mind everyone....they have mental problems, their mental problems are directed towards misinformation and retardation.......that fella you were talking to is not very intelligent

 

considering 4 of those posters have 1k plus post including one thats got 4400

 

I was defending them not bashing them.....reading pwnz j00<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by DirtySol &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">
their mental problems are directed towards misinformation and retardation.......that fella you were talking to is not very intelligent </TD></TR></TABLE>

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by hondainspired &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">considering 4 of those posters have 1k plus post including one thats got 4400</TD></TR></TABLE>

post count means nothing.

 

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post count means nothing. </TD></TR></TABLE>

BINGO!!! we have a winner!!!!

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by mushu315 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">that's messed up, i was asking an innocent question and i get ripped by 10 guys.
nah, someone did say that to me... and i tried looking on jackson-racing.com and all the dyno test were at 4th gear.
so i wasn't sure </TD></TR></TABLE>

we weren't making fun of you so much as we were laughing at the guy that told you that info in the first place. It's so far out there that we couldn't help ourselves..

Most dyno pulls are done in 3rd or 4th gears whether your car is all motor or forced induction. This is because they are trying to get as close to a 1:1 ratio for the best/most accurate power measurements. 1:1 means for every one revolution of the engine, your drivetrain also turns approx one revolution as well.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by egcoupe &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">it was probably him who thinks u cant use 5th but he didnt wanna sound like a dumbass so he said someone told him</TD></TR></TABLE>

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by mushu315 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">that's messed up, i was asking an innocent question and i get ripped by 10 guys.
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I dont think you got ripped on, you got your answer and found out your buddy is a dumbass.

 

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post count means nothing. </TD></TR></TABLE>

i agree... im an idiot and have ricer motivs

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 2point2 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">

post count means nothing. </TD></TR></TABLE>

That's just something someone with few posts says.

In all seriousness though, standing on the gas in 5th gear can be detremental if you have big power adders. Corky Bell (author of Maximum Boost, which is a great read btw), recommends that you don't stay in full boost for more than 20 seconds. Now that's even really possible until you get into 5th gear. Maybe that's what the person was trying to get at, or maybe they're just full of crap.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Ricey McRicerton &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">

That's just something someone with few posts says.

In all seriousness though, standing on the gas in 5th gear can be detremental if you have big power adders. Corky Bell (author of Maximum Boost, which is a great read btw), recommends that you don't stay in full boost for more than 20 seconds. Now that's even really possible until you get into 5th gear. Maybe that's what the person was trying to get at, or maybe they're just full of crap. </TD></TR></TABLE>

this is what i heard too. And it makes sense to... no car was ever designed to stay in boost forever. And you can only do that in 5th (6th if you got it). All other gears you'd be force to shift.... 5th... you can sit there for a while and most motors I would believe cannot withstand that type of load + heat build up. But to not be able to use 5th at all... that is dumbening.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Art In Motion &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">how gullible can you be </TD></TR></TABLE>

It's not gullible... not boosting in 5th gear, or for that matter 4th gear, was good solid advice - about four years back when the FMU was king. The tendency for heat to build up in the combustion chamber during long high gear pulls under boost is a valid point, but the problem stems from sustained high fuel pressure with an FMU setup. Typical fuel pumps, even Walbro 255, start getting warm and dropping pressure if expected to flow fuel at high pressure for any length of time. It resulted in going lean on those long pulls...