The secret of acceleration

[SavageUK]

eeehhh???  i floor it and when it beeps at me at around 7500 i change gear???

or have i mis-understood??

rmaj

spot on that man windows down of course to get that full noise effect the poor pedestrians have to endure  :cheers

[RemarkLima]

Technicaly you can bog the engine eith too much air at lower revs, so it\'s kind of a graident, IMHO.

So less throttle slowing building up to full throttle at anything about 4.5 k or so...

...It\'s definately the case in a NA engine, not too sure about turbo\'s, but old habits and all that

[RedRummy]

At wide open throttle, first turbo will start kicking in at about 2,500rpm (almost straight away basically) and the second one will take over at about 4,500rpm... and keep going till redline.

I generally floor it, which means I bounce off the redline in first gear, cos it gets there pretty quickly.  

[clandestine]

first turbo will start kicking in at about 2,500rpm (almost straight away basically) and the second one will take over at about 4,500rpm

Okay, I will have to do a bit of hands-on research...sounds to me as if I\'ve missed a trick or two!

[Rixio]

Just a question...who taught you how to drive...cos they need to be fired! :driving

Happy Motoring:wave

[sadgoth]

Just a question...who taught you how to drive...cos they need to be fired! :driving

Happy Motoring:wave

I like the Sir Alan Sugar stylee comment.

"you drive too slowly, you can\'t accelerate for toffee, I wouldn\'t have you on the track with me.........YOU\'RE FIRED!":spank

[andyroi]

:rollin I thought it was April fools day, not May fools day?:Hammer

[interloper393]

im in no way having a go but theres a mature guy where i live that owns a ehh ..that 400bhp evo7? cant remember the name.. fq or summink.. spoke to him last week.. he dosnt take it over 50mph..Ever! n trust me iv ended up behind him a fair amount of times lol.. why buy a car like that n not drive it? asked him if he did track days? o no never would take it on on track lol.. crazy just crazy lol jus dont see the point.. better off with a 1.0 micra

[Oedipus Rex]

what a bizzare thread.

how to accelerate? you just put your right foot down. I think its the first thing they teach you when you get in a car.

As for not taking it over 4k revs :3Confused

why would you do that?

[interloper393]

floor the accelerator but dont use the clutch to change gear :Hammer :rollin :driving

[andysmee]

what a bizarre thread! I use the right pedal like everyone else too, smoothly. Pumping the throttle sounds like a recipe for disaster in the wet

[grinder]

in the the hand book somewhere - red line at least once a drive - just to remove the carbon build up from the housings

well im sure it says that in my book

[Brett]

The pedal should under no circumstances be raised from the carpet :Giggle

[Prof]

:Nono! If you change up at 3000RPM, you fuel economy will be far too high :Nono!
 
Should use the buzzer as your shift light, as has been said above ! :cheers

[probedb]

in the the hand book somewhere - red line at least once a drive - just to remove the carbon build up from the housings

well im sure it says that in my book

I was gonna say, just once per drive?