Dangerous lack of torque
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Joey Ramone said:
Of course it's my fault you dullard. Re-read the bit in my original post where I admit my own ineptitude.
Although I can pretty much put money on the fact that someone has killed themselves in a Celica somewhere at some point.
You're not making things better for yourself with this post. Although I can pretty much put money on the fact that someone has killed themselves in a Celica somewhere at some point.
People need to get a grip, some days 100hp is deemed too dangerous when millions of people drive a car with less than 50hp, here we are having to entertain the idea that a 190hp car with a 6 speed gearbox is dangerously slow since you are not using it correctly.
Much like smaller engined bikes you need to use all the revs which can be helped by block changing down when you want to overtake - learn what the top speeds are in each gear, look at the speed you are doing in each gear at 5000-6000rpm and start working from there.
Scousefella said:
TheEnd said:
All I can see as a problem is you not knowing the capabilities of the car and trying overtakes when you shouldn't.
There's a lot of smaller cars out there that aren't dangerous.
Typical internet forum - chap makes post about subject, first reply tells him that he is a muppet in a polite manner. There's a lot of smaller cars out there that aren't dangerous.
usual story on this is the people who having been used to transit v6 and Sherpa V8 ambulances were faced with their the iveco daily or Renault master and decried them as 's
t' and 'gutless' despite them having similar power outputs and more torque ... they were ignoring the truck style 'green band' on the iveco's rev counter and trying to rev it ... Mercury00 said:
Pebbles167 said:
FFS this is completely unnecessary.
OP just needs to put his foot down.
He did put his foot down - in fifth gear at 60mph, and in a 1.8 petrol. As expected nothing happened. OP just needs to put his foot down.
As others have already said, use the gearbox. To accelerate from 60 to overtake you want to be in 3rd, of course 5th is going to be disappointing. If you want instant punch from cruising at 60mph in top without changing gear you need many more litres of displacement, an automatic gearbox or a big diesel engine. A small capacity NA petrol screamer is clearly not going to deliver this.
There is no level of performance which is dangerous, only dangerous drivers.
There is no level of performance which is dangerous, only dangerous drivers.
I have the same engine in my Elise.
You need to be up at 5K before considering an aggressive overtake.
2nd cam cut in about 6.2 iirc.
Assuming the ECU is the same you can get the cam change point lowered to about 5.7 which I'm told makes it an easier drive but you don't get the acceleration you do with the higher cam setting.
You need to be up at 5K before considering an aggressive overtake.
2nd cam cut in about 6.2 iirc.
Assuming the ECU is the same you can get the cam change point lowered to about 5.7 which I'm told makes it an easier drive but you don't get the acceleration you do with the higher cam setting.
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