rev meters on autos?

[Caveman]

LOL i have a shift light

But I have a rally car

And the shift light does help

[Jebus]

I seriously hate huge tachs, even on manual cars. Absolutely nothing wrong with the one installed in the car on the production line

Except for the fact theyre $&#$% shit and at redline are probaly innacurate in up to 500rpm.

But yeh agree'd monster tachs look shit.

[sergei]

Who need tacho or a shift light when there is a revlimiter .

[skoty]

I seriously hate huge tachs, even on manual cars.

Agreed.

[rwd_mayhem]

Who need tacho or a shift light when there is a revlimiter .

hahahahahahahahaha

[matt dunn]

Auto's have rev counters as most of the little shit boxe's are so quiet that you can sometimes be in 2 or have the OD off and not even know unless you look at the RPM's.


I run an shift light in my car but concentrating on a shift light is a waste of time and if you are used to the car you should be able to tell.
I run my light as an over rev light and it's set 1/2 way between where I normally shift and the limiter.

However, I wish I had set the shift lights up and driven to them in the focus as then I wouldn't have been shifting 1000rpm early as I was not use to the noises of the car,

[RomanV]

I could have used a shift light when I went to the drags!

My tacho wasnt working at the time, and I couldnt hear my engine through my helmet. I either short shifted or over revved the whole time basically.

Who looks down at their tacho anyway? unless you're nanna driving.
My peak power is like 400rpm away from rev limit, so a shift light would really help me keep the engine on the boil, without wasting time bouncing on the limiter. I'd set it to probably 1000rpm before I wanted to shift gear, so by the time my slow reactions notice, I'll change at about the right time.

[thaphatty]

$&#$% shift lights. who wants the distraction of a $&#$% torch shining in your face when concentrating? get used to the car.

especially on street cars. how blinding it must be driving at night.

[Emperor]

$&#$% shift lights. who wants the distraction of a $&#$% torch shining in your face when concentrating? get used to the car.

especially on street cars. how blinding it must be driving at night.

annoying, even for passengers.. Mate has one in his car, and it lights up way too early and blinds you hard out

[barryogen]

iv sed it before & il say it again

any one that needs a light to tell them when to change gear shouldent be given a linence come on you will know

better tell all those V8 super car drivers to just stop it then... I mean if they all need them just for wank factor, then they need to replace them with real drivers.

/sarcasm

[Snoozin]

Who need tacho or a shift light when there is a revlimiter .

Who needs a revlimiter when you have valve bounce

[diss7]

Who need tacho or a shift light when there is a revlimiter .

Who needs a revlimiter when you have valve bounce

I love kp's. Valve bouncing shift lock into 2nd...

[Emz]

i like the people who get monster tach's with the shift light on automatic skylines etc

omg... do people really actually do that??
thats the funniest/lamest thing ive heard all month...

i hate moster tachs and shift lights in general anyway.

[barryogen]

i like the people who get monster tach's with the shift light on automatic skylines etc

omg... do people really actually do that??
thats the funniest/lamest thing ive heard all month...

i hate moster tachs and shift lights in general anyway.

your dis-belief has made me want to go out and get pics of the Automatic Diesel Corona, with big bore exhaust, bug catcher on the bonnet, GT wing... mmmm, yep, he's a winner.

[thaphatty]

Who need tacho or a shift light when there is a revlimiter .

Who needs a revlimiter when you have valve bounce

who needs valve bounce when you have oil pump failure



told me exactly when I should have changed gears

[Snoozin]

I've got a 120W soldering iron, we'll get that looking good as new in no time mate.

That's catastrophic.

[Calvin]

my guess is that they make a generic dash and then decide if its going to be M/T or A/T

[matt dunn]

my guess is that they make a generic dash and then decide if its going to be M/T or A/T

Nope, as on a lot of models the auto hav a rev counter and the manual does not,
and the auto's are built with the PNDR21 lights where quite often there is no provision for the in some of the manual models.

Except for the fact theyre $&#$% sh*t and at redline are probaly innacurate in up to 500rpm.

Lol, Quite often the big cheap arse monster tacho's are even more out then that at high rpm. Have actually seen a cheap no name brand one at work that was almost 1500rpm high at 7000.

[Caveman]

oooo man all these shift light haters you make me lol

Mums new manual 1nzfe rolla has no tach, still easy to drive

Also the auto dashes are different as they often display which 'gear' you are in somewhere in the display.

meh autos are only good for daily drivers and drag machines, lock up torque converter and some other tricks I forgot, makes the fluid move faster in the box, dad used to do it on his v8s.

[method]

I have found shiftlights to be real handy.

Have had gizzmo dual stage lights in both of my cars, means i can change gears at pretty much the same RPM every time without over reving the engine for no reason.
Changing at max rpm doesnt mean your car will go faster.

And also after sitting at high rpm around a track for ages it all sounds simmilar through a helmet, shiftlights do help.

Not all of use have wanky exhausts so we can hear the engine loud and clear. My evo was reasonably quiet at high rpm and it wasn't exactly slow. After a launch in first gear you would be at 7,000rpm in no time.