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Offline Tortaruga

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Can anyone tell me how to drive?
« on: October 10, 2013, 11:26:43 pm »
The KO3 dies somewhere in the rev range and the car doesn't gain much speed thereafter. A Porsche I presume you redline before changing, but with the turbo I'm not entirely sure where the optimum gear shift point is. I assume just before the turbo stops boosting, but I don't know how to tell when that point is.

Perhaps I should buy an R32 instead so I can just drive like an orang-utan.
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Re: Can anyone tell me how to drive?
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2013, 11:34:48 pm »
Or get DSG ;)

In sport when I give mine stick it redlines through the gears mind.... But with paddles I shift about 1k before redline....
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Re: Can anyone tell me how to drive?
« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2013, 11:40:26 pm »
k03 pull drops off after 5.5k rpm...
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Re: Can anyone tell me how to drive?
« Reply #3 on: October 11, 2013, 09:31:49 am »
If your against the same car it's beneficial to stretch the gears out as that little hold on longer creeps you a little in front
My tsi used to creep in front of my mates a3 2.0tfsi but my tfsi rev upto 7500 he's 7300 and that seemed the only way I would get in front was the extra revs
Otherwise he's mid range and in gear power was better
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