Redline Rule Helped Car Run Better
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Redline Rule Helped Car Run Better
I'm fairly new here and have done much reading in the past month or so and I got to say this site rocks on the information at hand. I got a 04 MT and she's only got roughly 7000 miles on her. She's mainly a weekend car and she has'nt seen any winters. I was reading that they need to be redlined at least once every time taken out. I don't baby her, I have as much fun with it as I possible can but to be honest I never really got her up past 8500 rpm. Well today I let her loose.....took her up well past 9000 in 3rd and couldn't beleive how smooth it was. After all said and done she feels a little different now, alot more smoother. Thanks guys for the info!
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I'm fairly new here and have done much reading in the past month or so and I got to say this site rocks on the information at hand. I got a 04 MT and she's only got roughly 7000 miles on her. She's mainly a weekend car and she has'nt seen any winters. I was reading that they need to be redlined at least once every time taken out. I don't baby her, I have as much fun with it as I possible can but to be honest I never really got her up past 8500 rpm. Well today I let her loose.....took her up well past 9000 in 3rd and couldn't beleive how smooth it was. After all said and done she feels a little different now, alot more smoother. Thanks guys for the info!
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I tried doing the redline rule and noticed whenever I hit just barely below 8k (4AT I know...I know...not 9k.), that whenever it's rev'ing down from there I hear something from the engine, sounds like my old car's FIPK, like the engine is sucking in a huge amount of air, you can hear it. Is that normal, or is something up that I should be worried about?
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