What RPM to shift at?

[impulse001]

What RPM do you shift when at the track? I heard 5200 is ideal?

 

[SVT32VDOHC]

All 5.0L's are differnet depending on mods, trans, gear, tune etc.

My personal 5.0L 91 Mustang 5spd car...mods in sig. I shift on the street at 5,900RPM. My car has a sweet spot there. It really moves out well. Others may say, that is too high, but you can feel the power is still there.

I have read 5,600-5,700 is the highest a stock form 5.0L should be shifted, but you are gonna get many answers on this one.

 

[GTOreturns]

The intake is the bottle neck for stock motors. It doesn't make much power above 5000 rpm. 5000 is best for stock motors, but like said above your gonna get a lot of different answers.

 

[93FiveO]

The stock tachs are most of the time are off a little.So around 5200-5500 would be a good spot cus it will be around 100 or more rpms less then that.

 

[25thmustang]

On my stock tach...

6500 and thats not a lie either, I have a video of it on the dyno pulling right to 6900-7000.

Things about 800-1000 RPM off up there, so I'd say more long the lines of 5500-5700. Stock cam.

 

[cenok is family]

i shift at 5900 using my stock tach. i dunno if it's off or not but i'm sure it probably is

 

[Fuzion]

Yea stock RPM Gauge is way off specially on the high side... i shift in the yellow section around 5200. I can really feel the car quit hauling after that.

 

[SVT32VDOHC]

True, after 5,200 sometimes my car falls off a little bit....I know I said I shift at about 5,900, and I do, but I think it's when my car is hot and the outside temp is hot is when it falls off a little. You can hear it just for a split second.

 

[Deleted member 87397]

Have your car dyno'd and use the dyno graph to establish good shiftpoints.