I've got 14" tires with lower profile tires, but if 195 70 13s are the
stock size, then I have smaller tires in circumference which will only
raise my RPMs! No wonder it feels like I'm driving a buzz bomb!
Tom
Message text written by INTERNET:Jay_Laifman@countrywide.com
>Tom writes:
>With all this talk of Overdrives, ...
>does anybody know how fast the Series
>V engine is approximately turning at
>65 mph?
My speedo is completely accurate, as it was just calibrated, but my tach is
probably off. I do recall others reporting certain RPMS, etc. I do
believe though that before I changed to the OD (and the speedo was not way
off), my tach would read about 4000-4100 at 65. Now, with the OD and the
calibrated speedo, at 65 I'm reading about 3600. I believe others have
reported 3300 rpm at 65. For a long time, I've believed my tach to be
about 250-300 high. So, this makes sense.
That all said, I think someone had and equation for all this, and thus had
the exact numbers, perhaps taking into account some tire size change too.
Jay<
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