30th September 2006 Rolling Road Day

[NoelWatson]

Hi Noel,

Just got around to to looking at your power/gearing spreadsheet and graph. Interesting stuff.

Would you mind plotting a torque/gearing graph when you get some time?

The power/gear plot suggests it but one thing that the torque/gearing plot would certainly do is prove to any doubters, and there are always a few, that you MUST change up at the limiter if you want absolute maximum acceleration.

On the other thread you said that you were recording 160mph on the rev limiter at Bruntingthorpe? If so we may have the gearing figures slightly wrong. The table you refer to in the spreadsheet and I usually use from NSXPrime says 160mph at 8000rpm meaning we should be able to do 166mph at the 8300rpm limiter.

It's all somewhat acedemic but the pedant in me (oo-err Mrs) likes to know these things correctly :-)

Cheers

Mark

Interesting that they encourage shifting before redline

http://world.honda.com/NSX/technology/t6.html

The shift indicator uses green and red lights which flash then light up to indicate the power peak and rev limit, respectively, promoting more precise up-shifting and a more exhilarating driving experience. Standard power peak is 7,100rpm and standard rev limit 7,700rpm, with each light set to flash and then light up as the standard value is reached. The standard rev limit for first and second gears, however, is set 200rpm lower.

[jaytip]

Interesting that they encourage shifting before redline

http://world.honda.com/NSX/technology/t6.html

The shift indicator uses green and red lights which flash then light up to indicate the power peak and rev limit, respectively, promoting more precise up-shifting and a more exhilarating driving experience. Standard power peak is 7,100rpm and standard rev limit 7,700rpm, with each light set to flash and then light up as the standard value is reached. The standard rev limit for first and second gears, however, is set 200rpm lower.

These are the optimum shifting revs for the NSX-R though which has different gearing.If you changed gear that low in the revs in an NA1 you would be out of the V-Tech zone of the next gear (i think )

[Senninha]

Does anyone have copies of the videos from this event? If yes, can you repost please?