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Originally Posted by radiantm3
...I'm sure the needle isn't slow. I just feels like it because I often hit the limiter before I'm done shifting into second and it throws me off.
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Because of the short gearing and the resultant rate at which the M3 picks up revs in first gear, the tach needle definitely lags behind the actual revs. Happened on our E46 as well, and of course that car wouldn't pick up revs as fast as the current model. Just shift a hundred or two hundred rpm early.
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Originally Posted by radiantm3
With a car that pulls harder and harder to redline the fuel cut is a gut-wrenching feeling. I'm just not used to how fast the revs climb in first gear high rpms.
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The car is definitely very "sudden" in first gear, but as a nit, it doesn't pull "harder and harder to redline". It pulls hardest (in any gear) at the 3900 rpm torque peak, and gently tapers off after that. It's just that as the revs rise, the sturm and drang increases, particularly over that last 12-1400 rpm, thus fooling the driver into thinking it's pulling harder.
In the M3, the driver's heart rate increases proportionally with rpm.
Bruce