Shift bleep notification
 

Do you guys leave your upshift bleep notification stock at 7500 rpm's or do you adjust it? I am thinking about adjusting it to 3500 or so.. Also I was playing around with my paddles the past few days and thought it would be cool if there was a voice notification to shift because I was so focused on the road and not my tac.

You might want to do this in a mini van not in a z bro.:tup::driving:

Edit: Unless your in break-in period.:)

Just to get used to the paddles and smooth shifting. In auto it irritates me when I'm going 40 and the car is in 6th gear and boggy when it should be in 3rd or 4th. So I have been having to paddle down and get used to it. If I'm going 40 it's in 6th gear and if I don't mash the peddle it kinda just bogs along. But when I mash it... It of course lags a little bit and downshifts to the gear it needs to be and "GOES" so I'm trying to get more used to just manually shifting.

Not sure why'd you want to move it to 3500 rpm? That'd be really annoying. The power really kicks in when you hit 4000+, but of course you don't want to stay there unless your on a track or doing really aggressive driving.

I would just practice with the manual shifting, get to learn the rpm vs speed correlations. Sometimes I'll downshift too many times and it will bang on the limiter for a second or two. Its a learning process.

you should aways think 2seconds into the future (minimum) while driving.

thats and learn to listen to the engine

We have a shift bleep notification?

^^ This..???

I set mine at 5500. I'm getting old and stupid(er) and find myself forgetting sometimes whether I'm in auto or manual mode....the flashing light at 5500 is a reminder to stop trying to remember if I took my Geratol and to pay attention to the fun at hand.

Yeah I'm still getting used to my 370. My last ride was an exterra.

Leave car in manual mode all the time, shift gears like you would in a standard, enjoy the SRM. Learn to listen and feel the car and don't look at the shift light.
This car gear hunts and lags like all AT´s, manual mode is way more fun. :driving:

Yes I agree about the gear hunting and that is what is disappointing to me. If I want juice! I have to floor it and expect a bit of lag for it to downshift and give me what I want! Otherwise if I just want more speed and push on the pedal, it still stays In 6th gear at 40-50 mph at 1500 rpm's. It's irritating! So its like either punch it and expect lag and power or paddle down 2 gears and get the power I need! So that being said! I'm going to start using trip or the paddles.

I played with it, but ended up leaving it at like 7,000. I never get the shift light to turn on, because I drive like a grandma, but it's there.

Mine's set at 7200, so I have a chance to shift before I slam into the rev limiter. It was really handy during breakin as well.

Mine is set at 7,000 rpm and my ears tell me to shift as well.

wait you have a 7AT and you have a shift light/bleep? i'm confused since i'm pretty sure thats only in the 6MT. that or i am missing something.

I'm sure it'd be on the 7AT too, since it has manual mode... check your settings.

i only drive in manual mode and got 25K miles on my car and never found that light ever going on. i only see the "VDC off" light everyday lol

Guess you're shifting too soon, kid!

my rev limiter is raised to 8k soooooo i think im going a bit further than you are sir :tiphat:

and you really should have said "too soon junior" lol :bowrofl:

Damn, I should have. :shakes head:

And with the way I drive, everyone is shifting a lot higher than I am.

redline or bust bro :tiphat:

i go to the drag strip a lot and shift pretty high when driving anyways lol i drive "slightly aggressive"

but really with the 7AT you guys get the shift light to come on? i really think that is a 6MT thing only

I set mine at 4K for DD, and I just ignore it when I'm having fun.

I need a money shift bleep notification feature. With that money shift, I scream out all sorts of expletives that need to be bleeped out haha.

You can technically rig up a loud buzzer if you can source the shift indicator signal as a trigger.

So you know when to drop the clutch.

i still want to hear from the OP who says his 7AT has a shift light come on. i'm interested now. wonder if his traction control light is coming on and he thinks its time to shift lol

Take a break and go check it on yours?

where would i check? i've been through all menus and options in the past 2 years and i drive my car hard. never had that light go on. i'm 99% sure its 6MT only lol

Pfft, I don't have that little menu memorized. Isn't it like Settings > Effects > Upshift? I am pretty sure the actual item is Upshift (or at least "Upshift" is in the title).

i'll check at lunch but im serious i dont think the AT has it. i mean the light thing is there but i dont think it lights up for us.

I think you are correct. I will take a pic of the menu at lunch.

"menu" and "lunch" in the same sentense to haboob will distract him too much from any kind of Z related discussion. :rofl2:

:yum:

I am friggin' hungry! :tup:

here's what i found but i still dont think it pertains to a 7AT

http://www.the370z.com/attachments/e...-indicator.jpg

Unless you have the stock exhaust, then it's just tire noise you hear. :shakes head:

True that!

Here is the pic of my settings menu under alerts...

i'll check mine when i leave work. but like i said i'm 99% sure its not there

Are you 7AT?

Nope i am 6MT.

Damn, I wanted to prove FP wrong immediately.