View Single Post       12-08-2007, 03:44 PM   #193 Drives: E92
M3 and Elise Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Land of the Microchip
Posts: 689 iTrader: (0)  Originally Posted by
bruce.augenstein@comcast. View Post There's a chance we may have
another misunderstanding here, but that said, gearing and
redline essentially have no bearing on the matter, which in fact
is only power and weight. In addition to the information I've
posted on the topic in another string in this file, there are in
fact only three caveats here that I know of. The first is that,
having a redline a good deal higher than the power peak means
that you can wind the engine out higher, and thus arrive in the
next gear further up on the power slope. In that single case, a
"higher" redline (in this case meaning higher than the power
peak, rather than in absolute terms) will give you an
acceleration advantage. The second is that, given an engine with
an 8400 rpm power peak and another making the same 414 HP and
295 foot pounds at 4200 (each at their