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Originally Posted by smokn'
ok, i must be doing something wrong because i'm getting about 293 mph @ redline on the ss manual... haha
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well, if you could drive in a vacuum with no gravity then theoretically yes you could get up to that speed, however you have a form of terminal velocity. cus you have to keep in mind that you have air resistance and gravity that will not allow you to get to that speed. plus once you are moving that fast, it makes it harder and harder for the motor to keep accelerating. there was a rough hand formula that basically as your speed increases past a certain point, you need "X" times your horse power to add another % of mph
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Originally Posted by DGthe3
The 6th gear in that tranny is for fuel economy only. I believe that if you were to shift into 6th while at 175 mph your power would drop such that you would actually slow down. So top speed is achieved in 5th. I think. I don't know enough on the subject to say for sure though, so anyone who does please correct me.
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pretty much hit it on the head. altho with engine performance out there like it is, you could shift to 6th and
gradually accelerate faster. the main problem comes into gearing ratios to the point that its better for cruising but like i said above, it makes it harder for the motor to keep the car accelerating.
wait!
DG.... YOU JUST MADE ME THINK OF SOMETHING!
that has nothing to do with this conversation.
people are complaining about the manual SS not being paired up with the L99.... buuuuuuuuuuuuuuut, doesnt the AFM only activate during low load, idle, and cruising situations? (stick with me on this)
GM theoretcially should be able to do a manual L99 with AFM..... but they would have to program it so that it only activates when at idle in N or with the clutch fully depressed at a stop (with a microswitch/sensor on the clutch linkage so that when you release the clutch it goes back to V8) and have it programmed to be active when cruising in 6th gear (highway) and deactivate when you push the clutch in when cruising. and since the 6th gear is only really for fuel economy, add to that the AFM and you could yield 50+ mpg highway with the manual...
now this is all theoretical, but i dont see why it wouldnt work....
damn im good.