Silver Supporter
Posts: 272
Joined: Mon Aug 15, 2011 7:51 am
Cars: Peugeot 306
Peugeot 405 Mi16x4
Peugeot 406 V6 Coupe
Mazda MX-5 Mk1
Triumph GT6 MkIII
Mazda RX8-engined off-road race buggy.
Re: Automation Tutorial 2: Flying Debris
manta308 wrote:personally i dont care much for limiters, my car develops its max torque and kw at 5100rpm the rev limiter is at 7000 so i change gear at 5100 as there is no point reeving the engine past its power curve other than the nice noise it makes at about 6200 lol
There's a lot of point, if you want to go faster. As changing gear later will generally drop you into a part of the power curve which is higher than if you changed bang on 5100.
Plot out the thrust curves for each gear and you'll see what I mean.