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							Hey guys , ive allways wanted to ask what speed you guys can hit in first gear.
 
				My EL falcon hits 90 before it starts to redline and i have to change to second. i remember my xf falcon just made 60 in first gear. How come the first gear is so streched out? 
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							my XF will hit 83, but thats a couple of bars into redline territory (found out while proving to a holding V8 driving friend that he cant drive for s**t..... he really didnt appreciate neing left by an XF.....)						
						
						
								
							 
				
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					 {USERNAME} wrote: my XF will hit 83, but thats a couple of bars into redline territory (found out while proving to a holding V8 driving friend that he cant drive for s**t..... he really didnt appreciate neing left by an XF.....) 
fawk your xf hits 83.. thats morecore for an XF , is that like a differnt type of gearbox? or the stock ones? 
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							mmm... i've only taken mine to maybe 75 i never liked the idea of it bouncing of the red line, but i know that it can hit 85...						
						
						
								
							 
				
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							With power on it shifts at around 70 thats around 4800 i think, i havn't manually shifted from first to second. But she does rev up quick, she'd have no problem going off the dial! On both dials to be correct  
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							My old 89 model Na fairlane 3speed auto and 2.7ratio diff.. used to pull 98km/h at 5600rpm at out of 1st
 
				my new Au XR6 5psd manual (not sure on diff) will get like 61 at about 5500rpm out of 1st.. 
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							ive had my 87 xf upto very high 70's in first, 2.7 diff 3spd auto...  didnt like the sound of that tho.. havent done it since..						
						
						
								
							 
				
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					 {USERNAME} wrote: How come the first gear is so streched out? The 4.0L I6 (ford's bread and butter engine) has s**t of torque so is well suited to a lazy gearbox and diff. Bad news for us, considering the commodores of the time has shorter gearing as the V6 needed a bit of encouragement to make its power. Yeah mine'll do bit under 90 in 1st (3.23 diff on a V8) 
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							HA i bet all of yas   
				110 in first (on LPG) but i didn't like the noise the enigine was making too much 
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							Cant really say exactly but i got it to 80 once and it wasnt redlining  about 4800rpm so i would say 90 mabe   
				Going into second thou at that RPM it hits 120 fkn quick lol. all the balls in my XR is at 2nd lol 
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							093 in 1st on a 98 EL I6 Auto.
 
				139 in 2nd 180 in 3rd 180 in 4th *3rd and 4th speed limited. 
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							My EB1 Fairmont Ghia changes gears at 4500RPM (72kph) in power mode with the foot on the floor.
 
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							I get about 50-55 out of first gear in my EL  
				
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							70 odd.						
						
						
								
							 
				
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					 {USERNAME} wrote: My EB1 Fairmont Ghia changes gears at 4500RPM (72kph) in power mode with the foot on the floor. 
--Striker. I've gone upto 85ish in 1st in econ and power mode in the ef fairmont... the vyII commodore does about 80 
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