04-06-2024, 07:42 AM | #23 |
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I admit that I have hit the Rev limiter a few times in 1st gear as I'm still figuring out what my trigger point is to start the shift into 2nd gear. I find that my seating and steering wheel positioning (what's most comfortable to me) puts my eye line slightly above the horizontal rpm light bar so thats hard to track. This coupled with how quickly 1st gear revs up has made me feel silly a couple times.
What are other 6mt drivers doing for your shifting trigger points?
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In Sport Mode I believe they are more informative. I don't use Sport Mode all that often. I don't try to cut the shift too fine. While shifting early is bad, hitting the rev limiter is even worst. The engine is fine just if one is striving for max acceleration hitting the rev limiter really puts a dampener on acceleration. Oh, my driving is limited to public roads. No drag racing. No closed course racing. As you mentioned the engine gains RPMs very quickly in 1st gear. As has been the case for all my manual equipped cars the M2 is no different. Takes paying close attention and practice to *nail* the 1st to 2nd shift under hard acceleration. In the M2 I have never begun a hard acceleration event from a dead stop. (Those rear tires are $$$$!) My hard accelerations start in a higher gear and this is the case when getting on to a freeway. Or I'm already on the freeway and down shift and then run up through a gear or two. |
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When I see red lights flash I usually know it’s time to shift. That coupled with my understanding of the engine sounds at high RPM allow for a decent shift point. I’m not perfect (nobody is with 6MT, that’s the fun of it) but I’m getting better. Banging 1st gear RPM limiter is fun, and scary at times. Rather do that then money shift ha. |
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Glad to hear I'm not the only struggling with the 1st to gear shift shift point.
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I had a chance to open the car up towards the end of my drive when I was getting on the freeway. Ran the RPMs up while short of the rev limit up to at least in the very high 6000 RPMs range, and high enough I have seen the shift lights on the dash appear, and never saw any shift lights on the dash! This is contrary to what I have seen with the car in Efficient mode. I didn't have a chance to experiment any more. Can't believe I have to enable shift lights in Sport mode. Oh wait. Just checked the owners manual. In Sport Mode apparently the HUD is where the shift lights are displayed. Not on the dash! I wasn't looking at the HUD. To have the shift lights appear on the dash I have to disable the HUD. |
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Let’s not confuse sport displays with sport engine mode. If I switch to sport displays I get a tach and shift lights in the HUD. In Road displays shift lights are on the instrument display. I’ll have to check to see if lights are only displayed with engine in Sport/Sport+ but I generally don’t care as I mostly drive with engine in Sport.
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