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Daox · 06-10-2011, 12:48 PM

With a normal automatic trans, you can try to fake the car into shifting early by letting off the gas a little. When it shifts, accelerate a bit harder, but not so hard that it downshifts. I'd definitely try to keep the rpms under 3000.

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