Well, this will have more than one meaning to some of us, but here is the real meaning. As some of you know, I have owned my S for a couple of months only. It has been a totally different experience learning to drive this car, I have owned FWD Accords for many years. I have a theory about shifting gears. I have noticed that when I upshift at RPMs lower than 3K it doesn't like it, it is notchy, specially from 2nd to 3rd, so what I have been doing is keeping the revs up to end up more or less in the right RPMs after the gear is engaged. The reasoning behind this is IMO that when you engage the clutch to shift, the RPMs drop very fast and you end up going into gear at sbout 1.5K RPMs. Mind you , I have no problems shifting when I floor it and the RPMs are at 7K, 8K or 9K. Has anybody tried this?

 

 

If I read you right you are saying the car doesn't like it when you shift from 2nd to 3rd when under 3k?

I personally never shift under 4k and rarely right in a gear under 3k. It just seems as if the engine bogs a bit on me.

Also, as I have been told, the engine likes the higher RPMs because it breathes much easier hence the eaiser shifting.

Don't pussy foot it and try to save gas you will actually kill your gas mileage from my personal experience.

I drive like an asshole and hit 9k every day and still get good gas so don't be afraid to shift above 4k.

I personally I am in love with 3rd gear. If it were a woman I'd marry it. It can run from 20-90. So you can take it slow while in bumper to bumper and rev it all the way up and pound those pistons up to 9k and get 90. If I had a bigger gas tank I'd never shift above 3rd because I never go fast than 90.

 

I don't drive it slow on purpose, I'm in slow traffic in the afternoons going home. I get 22 mpg average on a tank, how much do you get?

 

Something like that but I know what you mean about being in traffic. When I am stuck on the Palmetto I just leave that bad boy in first... helps out a lot with the jerk motions from going slow in these cars.

 

Mine is the exact opposite, a high rpm 1-2 shift is balky, even with new mtf in there. As far as mileage, I drive pretty hard, and get ~18mpg. My car almost never sees the highway.