Manual owners - who heel/toe into 1st on slow corners??

[sootyvrs]

I think most of us know about Porsches long gearing on the manual (& PDK to a lesser extent) with 1st redlining at around 46 mph and 2nd at 82 mph...

Just wondering how many of us shift to 1st gear when driving briskly when approaching a slow corner (e.g 20 mph)?

I calculated that it's around 2k revs in 2nd gear so well away from where the power is. My calculation from the power charts (Porsche brochure) that 2k revs produces only 75 hp with base 2.7 and 86 hp with S & GTS where as 1st gear would be around 3.4k revs which produces around 129 hp & 160 hp respectively.

[sootyvrs]

jakesmith said:

Not sure where you get the 46 & 82 mph figures from but on my 997 2nd gear ends at about 60

This gearing is for 981 Cayman

[sootyvrs]

jakesmith said:

2nd gear goes up to 82MPH!? Seriously!?

Unfortunately yes for all 981 Boxter/Cayman models inc. GT4

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=129...

Edited by sootyvrs on Tuesday 7th April 15:30

[sootyvrs]

This was posted in the link I posted above which suggests max speed is indeed even higher at 49 mph for 1st and 84 mph 2nd!

rudester said:

The max speed in gear for the 981S manual and (PDK)
Gear / Ratio (PDK) / Max Speed (PDK) MPH
1st / 3.31 (3.91) / 49 (42)
2nd / 1.95 (2.29) / 84 (71)
3rd /1.41 (1.65) /116 (99)
4th / 1.13 (1.30) / 144 (125)
5th /.95 (1.08) / 172 (151)
6th / .81 (.88) / 201 (185)
7th / (.62) / (263)