What RPM's do you guys shift at, (5sfe; GT) for maximum performance? Options

[SleekCelica]

Do you take it to redline or shift with the powerband?

[96stgreendemon]

the car will not pull past 5400 rpm

[SleekCelica]

Is that where you shift for maximum performance?

[ssmatyb2]

mines the ssII 3sge, i shift between 4k an 6k, 6k when iam flooring it, i never go above 65ook the risk of hitting the redline is too embrassing

[richee3]

With the 5S-FE, the power drops off significantly. You are best to shift and stay with the powerband rather than take it all the way to redline.

[SupraKid]

Depends on your mods, im running an intake and exhaust and that alone raises the power band a bit. But yes shift when the power band starts to drop off...

[SleekCelica]

I got walked by a 2001 celica gt(no worries, in a controlled, safe and legal environment) in a straight line. We started at about 60 miles an hour, and I tried to stay in third gear, because forth has a lot less pull. But he was a good car length in front of me. I'm thinking it's time I stop being the slowest celica ever, and join club 5sfte

[richee3]

7th gen Celicas will do that to us. Even the GT has 140 hp, to our 130. The GT-S has 180, so there's no competition between our cars stock and a 7th gen. With a 5S, it's best to shift wherever you have to as long as it keeps the car in power. Shifting at redline just wastes gas and time.

[samir0189]

from my experience, shifting anywhere past ~5200 is useless. car makes plenty noise but zero power.

[TEAMFaint]

i shift between 3k and 4k.
oops this is for 5sfe not a 205.

but srsly, no sense in driving hard for no reason around town in my honest opinion.

[samir0189]

^^ oh, he said for max performance.

normally, i shift at 2k or 3k.

[Import_Freak]

i shift around 3200 usually

[cyberblader1130]

I normally shift at 3500 but if i feel like flooring it, ill take it to 5800 before i shift.

[mkernz22]

even though i have an auto, i drive it like a manual lol
i shift between 3 and 5k, about 5.5k when i floor it.
i know its probably not the best thing to do with an auto, but I have to semi practice shifting before I do an a2m swap

[stephen_lee]

i dont shift. ever

[SleekCelica]

Hmm very many interesting responses. I will soon turbo this bad boy(been researching this 24/7 in awe for the past 6 months) And then walk this Celica. Then, and only then will people stop calling me "slow"

[JuMPiiN]

research another 6 months 24/7, and i shift around 3500

[SleekCelica]

I will probably ending up doing that; I won't have the money to go through with this, and I'm not going to try and do it on a budget. But when I do build it, it will be badass, fast, and reliable.

[dudeofchaos]

Always shift at 3k.. Always.

Unless I feel like flooring it (When I get real pissed), I can go up to 5.5k. But it's very rare that I will exceed 3k. When I'm in a more sporty-driving mood I usually drive in the 3-4k but not more.

99% of the time I'm always in the 2-3k rpms. I wanna take care of it hehe. Although, at 2k and lower I feel like the car misses power/torque so much, it almost stalls.

This post has been edited by dudeofchaos: Sep 12, 2010 - 11:00 PM

[whatthe]

5400rpm all the time.

[Smaay]

another reason the 7th gen will walk away is the weight difference. its about 700-800 pounds.

[4-eyed-freek]

very true, when i fisrt found out how heavy celicas were i wanted to call toyota and give them my 2 cents, why would you make a sporty car be as heavy as an eliphant with no power.( unless you have a swaped engine)... but toyota was thinkin saftey so you cant go wrong there!!

another reason the 7th gen will walk away is the weight difference. its about 700-800 pounds.

This post has been edited by 4-eyed-freek: Sep 13, 2010 - 12:45 PM

[b22ri22an]

my shift point depends on my mood and how long that light was yellow for but seriously ussualy between 2500 and 3500 will give you enough pull to not feel like your crawling. if your looking for fast you got the wrong engine invest some in mods cause honestly shifting a stock 5sfe above 4k wont really have that much of an impact on anything but your mileage.

[SleekCelica]

I still am not sure whether I want to swap in a 3sgte, or turbo the 5sfe. The 3s has much more aftermarket support, and is factory turbo, so it's built for the boost, but the 5s is torquier than it. Presure was able to pull some pretty impressive numbers from it.

[stephen_lee]

v6, y0.

seriously drop in any MZ series block and you will have ~the same power as a 2nd gen 3s, and then you can shift at 2500 and beat any stock celi around

[SleekCelica]

What's the aftermarket support for the mz series?

[blu94gt]

Always shift at 3k.. Always.

Unless I feel like flooring it (When I get real pissed), I can go up to 5.5k. But it's very rare that I will exceed 3k. When I'm in a more sporty-driving mood I usually drive in the 3-4k but not more.

99% of the time I'm always in the 2-3k rpms. I wanna take care of it hehe. Although, at 2k and lower I feel like the car misses power/torque so much, it almost stalls.

At 2k and below you are lugging your engine, which puts extra stress on the rods and just generally isn't good for your engine (for those who don't know lugging is basically any time where you can give the engine more gas and the engine is unable to or struggles to increase in RPM).

I shift around 3500-4000 RPM on just about every shift, will bring it up to 5k every now and then but anything above 5k just seems to be a waste of gas.

[Euphoria]

Everyones right that it doesn't make much power after 5400rpm but the thing is the higher you rev it the higher the revs you will be doing in the next gear.

[stl95celica]

i shift at 6k every time or 5800 but usually it goes right up to six no problem