[QUOTE]Originally posted by lcheney:
[B]jj,
Sorry to hear about your mom. Hope she gets better soon.
When you say 'not much power', what exactly do you mean? Dyno charts I've seen from properly running cars show significantly more torque [acceleration] available at 2500 RPM than anywhere else on the curve, so the car accelerates faster in 2nd gear at 2500 than at 5000 RPM. [still not as fast as 1st gear at 5000 RPM, but do you understand what I mean?]. If there's significantly better high-RPM acceleration than low RPM in the same gear then you probably have this problem.
There's probably a better description here:
http://contour.org/forums/Forum3/HTML/001875.html Thanks ..
It is smooth ( no stutter or balking)all the way to the redline ... When I raced my brother in his Focus( headers, intake, chip ...) he pulls me until I hit about 4000 -4500 rpms and then I start running him down and literally go right by ..my top end will run down his low end torque ... I can't get the start he gets... weight, torque, driver ability, any or all of the above ?? ... jj
