Need advice for driving around town

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Originally Posted by lkchris

You were told wrong. Someone has taken advantage of your lack of experience.

Mine never sees 4K rpm almost ever unless I’m in some sort of race or just airing it out for fun.

Here’s something that’s true: in the history of internal combustion engines there’s never ever been one that required “keeping the rpms up.”

Obviously this assumes a driver that can recognize lugging and maybe even lugging induced pinging. Yes, I understand that a Formula 1 engine won’t idle at 900 rpm

If you’re not lugging it, any rpm above that is ok.

Finally, it’s something of a safety thing to have some acceleration in reserve, and with a manual transmission you have to create that. You should be able to tell how to do that and you certainly don’t need to look at your tachometer to do this. In fact you never need to look at your tachometer unless for some reason you’re running it out to redline.

Thanks for the information. I was basing the rpm numbers on the potential IMS issue.
It seems there are less failures on those engines that are run a little bit harder. I won't track the car but was told to run it hard when I can??