it just occurs to me, how do you redline an auto 8? the gear will be shifted up automatically (at 5-6K RPM?), the only gear you can redline it would be 5th (or 6th?) gear...how fast would it be when you are relining an auto 8 then...

I am just bored and curious...haha

 

serious?

there is a manual mode....

 

+1 manual mode is the only way to drive the auto 8.

 

Hopefully you have an 06+ AT...or it'll be like squeezing blood out of a turnip.

 

^I've driven a few 4 port AT's. They aren't that bad. Not great, but not terrible.

 

mine's not bad.

 

well yeah a turbo will help a lot, lol

 

so does a properly setup suspension.

 

Though most people who drive automatics may not realize it, they actually do control when the car shifts gear. It all depends on how deeply you have the accelerator pressed. Lightly press and you upshift very early. Pedal-to-the-metal and you will redline through every gear.

 

^all day long lol

i have mine about half way but smash on the freeway!

 

manual mode is ur friend

 

I make tender love to manual mode

 

++++++89000 for me tooz

 

+1 on every positive comment LOL, I love my auto, but there is sometimes when I'm flying through the gears and forget to shift and that dang engingine protection kicks and scares the crap outta me!!!

 

I do that too

My friends keep thinking the beep means shift up. Everytime I shift at 7500, they look at me disapprovingly, thinking I shifted too late. I'm too lazy to tell them that what they know from NFSU is a little incorrect for this car.

 

Lmbo :-D hopefully when I get the AP all that will change!

 

I love my AT! All the way to 9000 rpm. Nothing like watching somebody next to you shifting their brains out. While you wait till 55 mph to take it out of first.

 

I haven't kept up, a little busy, got any work done to your trans?


My experience with the 4AT is that it shifts like **** as it approaches 8k. Just saying. YMMV.

 

1st and 2nd are fine. It's the 2nd to 3rd that sometimes acts up. As in it slips a little between the shift. I don't think it's slipping it's just not engaging for a second. And the revs climb. But it does connect. The strange thing about it is it doesn't do it all the time.
I've asked Mazda about it and they have no answer except, "It might be that the line pressure is to high."
I've had two AT's and they both did it. One with stock redline and the other with the AP redline of 9000.

 

2 > 3 shift is deff lazy on my end as well. Just seems to get worse and worse the higher we rev the car. With the car boosted, with a 4.77 rear gear and being on the track we set it at 75-7600 and leave it alone. Lazy shifts cost us more time and more fun than the extra revs are worth. .02.

Throwing a modified torque converter in it with less fluid sloshing around may help but it's more fun to spend money on seat time.

 

My gf gets mad at me everytime I go to shift at redline in my auto. Lol but it sounds sooooo good.

 

I'm looking at the internal shift solenoids. I believe the issue is in the 2nd to 3rd one. But I know what you mean as far as lost rpm loss.

 

hahahaha well said. Personally I didnt even know they came in auto

 

How little you two know.

 

idunno, the gearing in that 4speed is pretty atrocious for this motors characteristics.