Quote Originally Posted by russ-bob
bro im sorry i gotta say your not gonna win any races if you shift at 3k rpms thats the point you should shift in normal driving but when raceing it is optimal to go up to even as high as 5-6k rpms on a car like that 3000 rpms just wont get you up there fast enough... and a drove my friends miata and ita got a govener at like 110 i think not 150 lol

~Russ~
yeah i know you got to go up higher when you are racing but the point i was trying to make with that post is that i am not going to be racing all the time and if abuse is limited and controlled i won't be needing a new transmission anytime soon i was talking about normal street driving because that is the majority of the driving i do and this car has a turbocharger it has no governor on it it was removed when the guy who owned it before my aunt fixed it up i went with her a couple of years ago when she bought it and the guy said he took it to the dragstrip and raced it regularly and was selling it because he was getting a new Acura RSX and to answer your question earlier i live in michigan out in BFE a lot of dirt roads and my aunt lives 20 miles away from me and also on a dirt road in the middle of nowhere and hell yeah i,d race that benz of yours that is a clean looking old school benz you got there nice car