Alloytec 190 acceleration

[KrisHolden]

Im not sure if its just me or not, but is it normal for these cars to have weak acceleration when the car is cruising at around 70-80ish?

I was driving on a slight incline today and wanted to take off to overtake driving 75ish. I planted the accelerator and it was as if the gear didnt downshift to shoot but stayed in 4th or 5th and slowly crept up. I know this is probably why active select is good. I was hoping for a more responsive takeoff and havnt really tested it before.

Any thoughts as to whether thats normal for SV6's VZ Calais etc?


cheers!

 

[richardpalinkas]

should have kicked down to 2nd for sure, with the throttle pushed all the way down

 

[KrisHolden]

Really... oh oh... hope I dont have a problem with my car.
Shortly after the post I looked up a similar car on utube and found this: Chevrolet Lumina (Holden Calais) (VZ) 80-120 (2) - YouTube

My car I think is similar to that being stock n all.

Im really interested to understand why your car would shoot from maybe 4th gear to 2nd when you do that though.
Im gonna re-test mine again next time and then again with Active select.

I think my next car has to be a V8 in order to get better acceleration at high speeds.

 

[newvz]

they jump from 4th to 2nd because thats what an auto does, if you have active select on (say your crusieing in 4th gear) and boot it nothing will happen you would have to click it down to 2nd or 3rd to get acceleration

 

[Reaper]

Im not sure if its just me or not, but is it normal for these cars to have weak acceleration when the car is cruising at around 70-80ish?

I was driving on a slight incline today and wanted to take off to overtake driving 75ish. I planted the accelerator and it was as if the gear didnt downshift to shoot but stayed in 4th or 5th and slowly crept up. I know this is probably why active select is good. I was hoping for a more responsive takeoff and havnt really tested it before.

Any thoughts as to whether thats normal for SV6's VZ Calais etc?

cheers!

In my experience they have weak acceleration at all speeds. Perfectly normal.

Reaper

 

[KrisHolden]

lol thanks guys!

Reasons for a manual, or even better a V8

 

[richardpalinkas]

in that video it downshifted to 2nd, so i cant see whats wrong with it, except the diff gears are a bit tall, get some 3.46 in your car and it should come out good as such in my video

Vz sv6 0-100 - YouTube

 

[Slipper]

whats the 0-100 time in that richard?

 

[Slipper]

nm i just read the 120 = 100 part, i thought that was a bit too quick for a sv6

 

[CAPRILICIOUS WL]

My alloytec is abit like that but maybe worse cause I have or had 2.8 diff gears in there.