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mickt
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Pub Quiz Time

Post by mickt » 19 Oct 2008 04:31 pm

This one caught me out from the gear lever page on the owner's manual . Maximum speed is attained in 4th gear ( with 5 speed box) . I have only been driving for 40 years but I did not know what overdrive was.

Has anyone else got some pub quiz type questions for the mechanically challenged?

cheers mickt

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Post by filthyjohn » 19 Oct 2008 04:40 pm

Don't know about that Mick, I can always get a higher speed out of 5th than 4th. That's with a B14 mind, but pretty sure I was in fifth when I went off the clock in the 360 (at erm... Thruxton... obviously).
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Re: Pub Quiz Time

Post by CBA » 19 Jun 2010 11:48 pm

Hee Hee! sm37
I think it's about economy driving - EG always drop gear to accelerate, otherwise you have the gas down for ages, better to drop to 4th to accelerate quickly, then back into cruising gear once desired speed is reached - uses less gas... most of the time.

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