**Why was there no Digital RPM read out?**

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I was just wondering, we have a speedometer and a digital readout right?

Why then wasn't it the same with the RPM, eg there is a precise point in the red line called the fuel shutoff point which 12secCivic wrote about, it would have been far easier to identify this point on a car with a digital readout? :confused:

For example I was in driving in :gt: last night and couldn't go further than 8000rpm, but if I'd known it was maybe 8050 :magnify: from a digital readout then it would be possible to get every last rpm before up changing? :D

What's everyones thoughts? 💡
 
Well the readout would be changing too quickly for you to really make that kind of distinction.

As a guide, the shutoff point is usually at the beginning of the second red segment of the rev counter.
 
i bounce the tach in a few gears when i first drive a car. after that, i just shift a little before i know it's going to kill off the gas. German and British cars, as far as i've found, shut off pretty astily after the redline. American and some Japanese cars, on the other hand, can go farther than their redline. if you're trying to squeeze the most power out of every gear, you're not going to find it after the line - if you look @ a car's specifications, it'll have the maximum bhp, listed at the point in the powerband @ which it is put out. i.e., 445 bhp @ 6500 rpm. <-- that car would probably redline around 7200-7400.
 
I think a digital read out would have been nice. But it would have been a little hard to read. But I to like to get all the power I can out of the car.
 
Digital would be really harder to read than analog readout , especially in lower gears... do you know why so few real cars have digital dashboards? Because it's harder to read...
 
what i want to know id why does the spedometer only go up to 200Mph when they obviously know that MANY cars can far surpass that. i hate lookng down and i just see the needle buried and it no longer moving.
 
i think that's exactly why they did it.
it looks kind of cool seeing that you're oficially going too fast. it also adds to the realism - how many (street) cars have 200+ speedos? i do, however, agree that they should have extended it in the race cars.
 
lots of cars have 200+ speedos. But you have to live out side the USA.
 
Originally posted by para22
Digital would be really harder to read than analog readout , especially in lower gears... do you know why so few real cars have digital dashboards? Because it's harder to read...
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Exactly - didn't we try this stuff in real-life cars in the 80's?
 
500 rp after hp peak is probably a good shift point. also important is the aftershift rpm.
 
Theoretically you would want the rpm to drop low in the first 2 or 3 gear and less in later gears. hp is more important than torque at higher speeds. which reminds me, if any of you have car and driver's 0-150-0 isue, the first (not sure if there were later ones) it's a good read because it mentions the approx speed where hp takes over.
 
Originally posted by streetracer780
lots of cars have 200+ speedos. But you have to live out side the USA.
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That's because the speed is measured in Kilometers Per Hour outside of the USA, both on the roads and on the dashboards (200 KPH is only 124 MPH).
 
Originally posted by Jordan
That's because the speed is measured in Kilometers Per Hour outside of the USA, both on the roads and on the dashboards (200 KPH is only 124 MPH).
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A Lamborghini Diablo i had the pleasure to be driven around in bahrain had a 400 km/h speedo :D ... Anyway in European GT the speedometer is only 320 km/h , and supercars (almost all) have more than that... And in japan the cars have 180 km/h speedos as standard (yeah even supras or skylines etc.) because they're restricted , but 99% of buyers change the ECU settings to get rid of that and install 360 km/h or 380 km/h speedos from companies such as veilside , nismo etc...
 
Originally posted by Jordan
That's because the speed is measured in Kilometers Per Hour outside of the USA, both on the roads and on the dashboards (200 KPH is only 124 MPH).
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True. and anyway in the :uk: all our performance cars :car: are limited to 155mph anyway :rolleyes: Damn government :banghead:

Imagine buying an :audi: RS6, then going to Germany for some 200mph+ Autobahn fun and getting fixed at 155mph? :eek:
 
I saw a video on Kazaa of a stock Supra, with out the speed governor and it also had a cold air intake, anyways, they had an indash video of it going 177mph!!!

The Supra is an awesome car.

Canada uses km/h which I think makes a little more sense. But it doesnt really matter, km/h are just slightly more accurate.
 

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