well can some one awnser a question i never had a manual car. usually when u pick up speed the rpms rise then when u hit a speed and hit cruise they will drop down. mine just stays at 2500 when im in 5th.
That is 'cuz an automatic is usually in a lower gear...IE 3rd or 4th while accelerating to make it easier on the engine. Then once it gets to speed it will drop gears to its highest gear for cruising. If you are already in the highest gear there is no where for the RPMs to drop
You know, after thinking about this last night,I suspect that there is definately something wrong with you Dad's car. Make sure he takes it in to see why his motor is running so slowly on the highway. It sounds like his brakes are dragging and slowing down the motor... Ron
Um, what's the point of the grumpyness? We are all naive about something at some point. I'm sure experts in PWM would consider lots of the electronics questions here to be silly, and I'm not a huge fan of octane/performance/cost questions but that doesn't mean I don't respect the asker.
The cars will run differently because the gear ratios are different. Bigger motors can usually run a bit slower and produce more power, but there are other trade offs like the lock up torque converter on automatics. In a manuals, the rpms in any given gear are completely linked to the cars speed, so there's no way for the rpms to drop once you're in 5th gear. In other words, in a manual the connection between the wheels and the engine is completely solid. If you've seen the rpms drop in other manual cars, it almost has to have been a problem with the tach itself .
Now, for the important question, what's making you think it's running hot? Does the temp gauge get very high? Technically, unless the overheating light lights up you're fine, even if the needle goes up. If the car is really running hot, the most likely cause is that the thermostat is on the way out, and this is a relatively easy and cheap thing to fix.
Subjectively, because the motor is compact and powerful and crammed into a tiny space, it will feel hotter than motors in a lot of other cars and this is normal.
because he's asked the same question 3 times completely ignoring our responses
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