Steve2004 said:I have a shift light in my ph1. It's a little gearstick symbol which lights up green, on the left hand side of the dials.
DesignPunk said:Actually guys, I have an '02 172 (MK2?) and I have one of these lights, what is it for??! Not really up on this sorta stuff, the 172s the first "real" car I've had!
I'm not sure, it depends what gear your in you want to maximume power from the engine so it you go over the max point to say 7k when you change up the cars getting more adverage power.stevo172-250 said:it comes on too late anyway you should be changing way before if you want to go faster! although it does sound brill!
stevo172-250 said:it comes on too late anyway you should be changing way before if you want to go faster! although it does sound brill!
Try and get a magnet to stick.word_easy said:how do you know if you have an alloy bonnet?
edde said:Try and get a magnet to stick.
If it doesn't stick thn its an alloy bonnet.
DesignPunk said:Cheers dudes, now i know! I inadvertantley ran my rev counter up to about 7400 the other day cos i'm still getting used to it (in secind I might add), hope i haven't done too much damage!
edde said:Try and get a magnet to stick.
If it doesn't stick thn its an alloy bonnet.
Only some Mk1 172 had alloy bonnets the Mk2 didn't.
edde said:Don't worry about reving to 7.4k some remaps let them go to 8k all the time someone ever remaped once to 8.5k and it lasted a short while before the coils broke.
The difference in bonnet weight makesalmost no difference and the rev limiter light is no point IMO either. They make no real differecne its nice to tell people you have one but nothing important.
Nope depends on the grear you need a RR printout realy and work out when to chnage gear at what RPM as you want to maximume rthe adverage poer so in first maybe chnage up at the redline in 4th chnage up at 6.4k as the drop in rpm to 5th will mean that your adverage power will be higher.E-ray_172 said:got alloy bonnet and shift light, i thought for max acceleration you shift just after the shift light comes on.
GT_gaz as one of them from BB which will be much the same. I do't know of nayone with the k-tec one best do a search.DesignPunk said:Cheers Edde, speaking of ECU remaps, I've been looking at the ones that k-tec do and am quite interested in em, anyone got any experience of em?
I assume they just remap the ECU towards performance as opposed to fuel efficiency/emissions? Or am I just showing my lack of knowledge there?!