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Old Dec 6, 2004 | 11:03 PM
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If nothing else, it's the principle of it. Street racing is stupid, dangerous, and gives the hobby a bad name.

As for the question, Kai covered it. But I will add that since you (menappi) don't have experience with it, be very careful with downshifting and high speed shifting in general. I don't know if you have a chipped ECU or not, but if you get going too fast and shift into third or don't know how to match your RPMs up properly, you can bend rods in no time. My buddy had a stock ECU in his ek civic and mis-shifted into third when he wanted fifth, and bent 2 rods by the time the ECU cut him off. So even a rev limiter won't save you if you're doing hard shifting. Go to the track, get to know your machine, and keep it on the track.
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