Useless car fact #8

Automotive wording

You may hear a dishing need like me say words like “valvetrain” or say phrases like “money shifting” and not know wtf it means, well look no further, this posts goal is to educate the sticknodian population on Automotive blabber

“Money shifting”: money shifting is 2 words that are used to describe an act done with a manual transmission. A money shift is where you are in a higher gear, moving at a fast speed, but you accidentally shift into a low gear. The reason this is called a money shift is because shifting from a high gear to a low gear at high speed can result in many unwanted things, these unwanted things include but are not limited to: damaged transmission gears, damaged clutch, damaged engine, and blown engine. The reason it would blow you engine, is because when you shift from a high gear to a low gear at high speed, it changes the gear ratio in the transmission, so basically what happens is the when you money shift at a high speed, your RPM will sky rocket and blow past the red line and effectively blow your engine. No matter what engine it is.

“Red line”: the red line is a zone in an engines RPM (rotations per minute) gage that shows RPM that the engine is capable of, but should not be operated at.

Take for example, a car that has its red line at 7000 RPM, you can safely use the 1000 to 6000 RPM range, but if you go past that, into the 7000 to 10000 range, you run the risk if blowing the engine, or atleast damaging components, this is why moneyshifting is bad, because it makes your RPM go far into the red line.