Proper Shift Points for the 2012 R?

Hello Fellow Golf R Owners!

Quick question? What are the proper shift points when trying to achieve maximum horse power / torque / speed? I've been taking the RPM's to around just right at the red line and then I shift. I try to do this for every gear when I'm racing. I don't want to hurt the engine though so I'm wondering what is recommended?

Probably depends somewhat on mods/tune/turbo. When this has been discussed in the past I recall that 5800-6300 seemed to be the consensus. Maybe a post on the R Owners FB page would get some decent replies.

It would be simple to plot that if a dyno sheet was available.

Many have theories. Here's some empirical evidence:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZBqb0ZJSwU&feature=youtube_gdata_player

DUB

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Ronnie said:

Hello Fellow Golf R Owners!

Quick question? What are the proper shift points when trying to achieve maximum horse power / torque / speed? I've been taking the RPM's to around just right at the red line and then I shift. I try to do this for every gear when I'm racing. I don't want to hurt the engine though so I'm wondering what is recommended?

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Watch your boost gauge, when it plateaus it's probably time to shift. It's a little different for each gear but approximately around 5k on the standard tune. If you're running a tune, the FA mix and boost are what's modified, but same principle, when you're popping off excess boost it's time to shift.....

Don't have a boost gauge, get one of these https://www.amazon.com/Hikeren-Blue...=OBD2,Hikeren+MINI+Bluetooth+OBD2+OBDII&psc=1
and download Torque Pro onto your phone, total costs about $17.

Using a similar approach to the engineering explained approach for my 2012 Golf R on oem diameter tires you can see the optimal shift point rpm in the charts in link below(for quarter mile): The legend is as follows: yellow=3rd to 5th shift and purple=3rd to 4th shift (quarter mile times shown are assuming no shift time)

For tq & hp details refer to 100oct dyno plots: http://www.performancebyie.com/ie-mk6-golf-r-high-performance-software-ecu-tuning

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0I_JJ-pFptrWDduSG9sNDhOMHc


fyi, if you had safe conditions and were to pull thru 5th gear, the 4th to 5th shift would be 6300rpm...and if your gonna pull thru 6th.....just don't be responsible