ECT PWR button
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Originally Posted by Gernby
the mode that shifts at the highest RPM is Normal! Peak RPM in Snow mode is 6260. For Normal mode it shifts as high as 6625, and PWR mode it shift as high as 6510. It also seems to shift at a lower RPM in 1st gear than in 2nd gear for all 3 modes.
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When trying to pretend you're shifting in S mode, which is all you can do, one of three things can happen:
1) You paddle up too late, and the car bounces off the rev limiter. This won't hurt anything, but your shift will suck.
2) You paddle up too soon, in which case, assuming the car is floored (which I assume since you're discussing redline) the car will still automatically shift to the next gear at the maximum correct RPM. Just like if you had left it in D the whole time.
3) You paddle up "exactly" in time for your fully automatic transmission to correctly shift up to the next gear exactly when it would have if you'd left it in D.
Notice how in none of those cases using "S" helped at all, and in one made things worse? (and in the two non-worse cases you'll always shift at a higher max RPM in ECT-Normal than in ECT-Power)
Your car is an automatic. The paddles aren't shifters, they are simply top gear limiters. They are not useful for making the car any faster. The only things they can do in a drag race are slow you down, or if you're very very lucky they can perform just as well as leaving it in D would have done. The car remains 100% completely automatic at all times, within the allowed range of gears.
If you want a car that can actually "hold" a gear without ever downshifting or upshifting you need to trade up to an IS-F.
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In an ISx50 however the best you can ever do with the paddles-that-aren't-shifters is exactly as well as just leaving it in D can do. Meaning even "perfect" isn't any better than if you'd left it alone... and if you do manage "perfect" all you did, literally, was manage to get out of the way of the ECU doing the same thing it would've done if you had left it in D. Because the paddles aren't shifters.