Top Speeds in Different Gears (6MT)

GTRFAN

My limited Physics knowledge says that at a certain point, the car will not be able to accellerate any further as the wind resistance will be too great, so it will never see the 7500 redline in 6th. It will just sit on a lower rpm and be unable to push through the wind given it's known HP output.

More power and torque will change this.


I've been saying this all along on other threads. The only problem with using 5th is running into the speed limit of the rollers on the dyno. Some dyno's only support 200km/h, so using 4th is the only option to keep the speed down. (shoud only vary by a few kW anyway.)

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kannibul

What's interesting is that using 4th, unless compensated for in some way, the 7AT will show higher torque numbers (and therefore higher HP) due to the reduced ratio in the rear end and 4th gear.

Hmm...interesting, but, not that it matters much. Comparative gains is what I'm interested in, which before and after dyno runs is good enough.