Stan Galat posted:edsnova posted:@stangalat you're buying special "beehive" valve springs and all kinds of rigormorole and what-have-you building a bigish engine with Panchitos yadda yadda. Why are you showing shift points below 6000?
Good question @edsnova. Habit, mostly.
I'm interested in where the shift-points are in normal travel. I could've (and probably should have) put in 4000 as the shift-point because that's where I like to shift when I'm being a good boy. I used to plug in redline, but @ALB broke me of the habit in one of the 50 or so PMs we've sent back and forth over the years regarding the perfect 5-speed.
Ah. So... Um.
Why not redline? Or better yet, why choose any particular rev range as a shift point when figuring gear ratios?
In other words, what is, distilled from those 50 PMs, the wisdom here?