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Originally Posted by tramtwo
If you have track left and are pegged at 231... you'll shift!! 
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Not if I wish for my weekend to continue... shifting into sixth a and trying to maintain or increase speed will guaranteed destroy the transmission... Think of the dynamic forces acting on the car, rolling and wind resistance, which increase exponentially with speed, and then dump the power into a stock cast or weak forged gear set... Done. finito, no mas... daddadadathas all folks...
If I'm at 230 and still have track left, I'll keep my right foot firmly on the loud pedal... and be creeping my right hand to the chute release...cause that shutdown area at 1/2 mile is gonna go by in a hella hurry... At 230 + mph, you cover a half mile in 7-8 seconds... I wonder how long it takes to stop a 5th gen on the road from 70 mph... 5, 6, 7 seconds... and what distance... At my first running of the mile, stopping twice from right at 200 mph, my front rotors were BLUE... heated and cooked blue... tempered blue... it was pretty impressive... if I may say so... I'm betting by the time I turned off the track thay wer a pretty shade of yellow... and cooled to blue...I need to figure out I can get a go pro looking at the front rotors, but more to my desire, looking at the exhaust manifolds during the mile pull....
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If the car feels like it is on rails, you are probably driving too slow. -Ross Bentley
Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall.
Torque is how far you take the wall with you.
“If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.” Mario Andretti
If you can turn, you ain't going fast enough...