Old Apr 22, 2010 | 11:26 PM
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Unhappy My SRT6 hit 6500 RPM today... and I'm freaked out

Alright, tonight coming back from the store I hit 6500 RPM on my SRT6. That's right, I am not exaggerating... a little tiny bit before the middle mark in the redline zone. So actually about 6450.

Ever since I got the car, I've been testing its awesome acceleration. But it seems about half the time the car just doesn't want to shift and I have to let up off the accelerator as I see it creep too far in the red zone. It seems to happen almost exclusively in the tiptronic mode, most of the time shifting the car between 6200 and 6300 RPM (which is a little much for my taste). When I mash the gas in auto it seems to do alright and shifts about 6000. When I use tiptronic, starting in 1st gear and gun it, I do the right hand flick to manually upshift at about 5800... and it seems to not want to listen to my command and continues up the redzone until I let off the gas and it FINALLY shifts itself.

So WTF could be going on here? I thought we were pegged at 5800 RPM stock, why am I hitting such obsurd rev levels? And... could I possibly have hurt something?
 
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