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Auto shifts too early?! 700 1986

posted by  someone claiming to be Brian on  Mon Dec 4 16:01 CST 2000 [RELATED]

I have a friend who knows a good amount about cars but wasn't sure about this... so here it goes... If you use the stock automatic transmission and start it off in 1st gear, and floor it and when it gets to about 5.5k rpms take your foot off the gas and push the shifter up to 2nd, and repeat the same thing and push to drive and repeat and push the OD button... is that bad for the transmission? Any effects at all or anything? I'm looking for whatever you all have to offer about this. I only ask about this because I noticed today for the first time that the car shifts way to early... the redline is at 6k and the car shifts JUST before 5k. Why so early? Thats crazy... its missing out on some power that could be used.... but on the other hand I don't want to shift through on an auto if its bad. What I don't understand is if its ok to do that on an auto then why wouldn't anybody do it...? Also what about this new geartronic Auto-manual tranny's you can get? Is it the same idea just meant to be more convenient?

Thanks!

Brian





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