Originally Posted by blue pearl
I have found that it is TOOOO easy to get it to hit the rev-limiter and nose dive the car. When going 25-30 or so and tapping the stick left two times to get into the lowest possible gear (most likely 1st) and right after the second tap flooring the gas. The upshift at redline will be missed and the rev-limiter closes down the power. This is disturbing because the only time I do this is when trying to accelerate AQAP. Just flooring it is sometimes too slow to react or it only downshifts 1 gear. Seems like the smart transmission allows it to go into a lower gear than it can react to if too close to the redline when upshift is needed.
I am not sure if I understand the problem; why are you hitting the stick to the left twice when trying to accellerate. I guess that you are not accellerating from a stop, but from 25-30. I know that hitting the stick twice to the left will put you in the lowest reccomended gear for that speed, I beleive that the manual stated that this was regardless of the engin rev. The purpose of this option is to get going fast, but 25-30 in 1st is about it. I never use this option, as the transmission cannot respond as fast as the engine. Here is what I do, and have had the same problem;
1) firewall the throttle; this causes the auto trans to downshift to handle the added thrust and torque.
2) If necessary tap down one gear (left); at 25-30 this will want to put me in 1st, but after the auto shift to 2nd there is no need. I wish I could at this pont contol when it goes into 3rd, but is I was in any other gear other than 2nd when this happend, I am screwed.
Here is what I have discovered; I hit left twice then right (before I stand the car on it's nose, and launch my wife) This puts me in 2nd with no change of gear allowing me to control when I shift to 3rd.
So the answer is to floor it, and do a quick double left and a right.
I have trained myself to do this to set the car manually to whatever gear I am in. Try it it works, but takes some training to do quick enough without actually shifting