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stealthwolf:
That's what I thought. Needed the turbo spinning and didn't think it'd spin fast enough if I went down to third so went down to second.

TomB:
Valvers love being dropped down a cog or two and being driven to the redline, the power is at the higher end of the rev range.  Its one of the reasons I'm back in a GTI after a few years with a TDI.  I dropped 2 cogs in that and almost blew it up!

Toptrump:

--- Quote from: stealthwolf on February 25, 2009, 07:31:58 pm ---That's what I thought. Needed the turbo spinning and didn't think it'd spin fast enough if I went down to third so went down to second.

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You just need to drop down so the turbo is still "on" boost, and because they are pretty small things they spin up at low RPM so I would think 3rd would have been fine.

With regards the rev limiter, I didn't think the rev limited actually worked when you changed down to far.  I have seen the little needle way past what the limited was on my Civic by hitting the wrong gear by mistake.  Not tried it in the Golf to see.  :smiley:

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