Have you revved your cars up to the red line?
08-04-2009, 10:19 AM
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Originally Posted by sdg1871' post='964916' date='Aug 4 2009, 07:46 AM
I also have a Step and use it as a manual whenever I am doing performance driving. My 550 is a LCI car and my Step shifts at the redline -- even in you are in "manual" mode. Accordingly, in my car you cannot hit the rev limiter. In my 2006 Infiniti M45 Sport, the auto trans in manual mode would hold the gear and bounce off the rev limiter without upshifting. No so in my 2009 550.
08-04-2009, 10:28 AM
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Originally Posted by v_therussian' post='964915' date='Aug 4 2009, 07:27 AM
I was thinking about doing the TOD this Fall...
08-04-2009, 10:57 AM
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Originally Posted by sixcard' post='964927' date='Aug 4 2009, 08:18 AM
Slightly off topic ...
Can anyone tell me why V's posts, #2 and #4, above, are truncated? I have to scroll to right to see all his profound comments.
Other posts [#1, 3 and 5] can be read w/o a scroll to right.
Maybe I should ask if others see that???
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Can anyone tell me why V's posts, #2 and #4, above, are truncated? I have to scroll to right to see all his profound comments.
Other posts [#1, 3 and 5] can be read w/o a scroll to right.
Maybe I should ask if others see that???
sixcard
08-04-2009, 11:05 AM
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Originally Posted by DD_545i' post='965038' date='Aug 4 2009, 07:40 AM
We'd miss out on all the bushes and grass on the left half of the sig if he did that 
Heaven forbid. We need to see those bushes!
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Originally Posted by GregBrand' post='965356' date='Aug 4 2009, 11:57 AM
I have the same problem and can't read his posts without the tedious scrolling left and right. Ugh.
08-04-2009, 01:34 PM
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Originally Posted by cobradav' post='965287' date='Aug 4 2009, 02:19 PM
I forgot to say I have to "hold" the gear shifter to keep th etranny from shifting on its own. Also I can preload the down shift in manual to take place as soon as software will allow in manual by pressing and holding the shifter unti lit actually makes its shift.
What is the use to it? when do you use it?
Thank you for the extra info.
08-04-2009, 05:04 PM
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Originally Posted by e6t' post='964970' date='Aug 4 2009, 09:14 AM
i have never taken my car over 4500 rpms. and i ALWAYS use my turn signals.
08-04-2009, 09:12 PM
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I find that in most cases the redline is a just a suggested place to for amateurs to be concerned about. Us professionals, find that you are never living life until that point in which the engine is right on the edge of self destruction, and the needle is pasted on the far side of Vne.
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I had mine in DS the other night with dsc off.....and punched it from a light. It didn't shift gears...instead it hit the rev limiter until I let off the gas. Kinda weird....I need to try it again......because the time before that it up shifted fine by itself.
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