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Originally Posted by Dwight
You can have you car dyno'ed. The chart will show you were you power starts to drop.
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Best answer yet. SnakeBit,
forget redline, think Shift Points. If you have your engine chassis-dynoed then you can factor your torque curve in with your transmission gearing, wheel sizes, final drive ratio, and find the optimum shift point between different gears. Almost any well built solid-lifter engine should be comfortable going to the 6000-6500 range and, I'm willing to guess, that is where you will find most of your optimum shift points (maybe even lower). Here is a nice little program that will let you factor in all of that data and suggest to you where you should try and shift -- you just might find yourself setting your rev limiter lower than you think.
http://www.performancetrends.com/tg.htm
