When you shift it manually at 8500 rpm it doesn't to it any more. The car is an automatic so you're never lifting the throttle. When the ecu is shifting the car at 7000rpm the next gear comes all the way down to 4000rpm and the engine can’t move all the air that is in the manifold at that low of an rpm. When you shift the car manually at 8500 the next gear only drops to 5500rpm and the engine seems to be able to move the air at that higher rpm because it’s not surging. Ideally we would like to shift it at 9500 rpm but Steve is a little nervous pushing it that hard even though that’s what the engine and heads are rated at. That way the next gear would be in front of the peak torque and the engine would not have to fight to move the air. Also, we need a bigger cam(280) and more port work done; that will greatly help in moving the air at lower RPM.
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