Yeah, that sounds about the same as on my car. Because of the wierd ratio od the 5th gear, I treat my car like a 4-speed w/overdrive. I don't shift into 5th until at least 63-70 mph. The low # being the shift point for cruising, and 65+ for accelleration. Otherwise, I just cruise in the other 4 gears. And for the lower gears, I use the following shift points (it's easier to type just like the tach says X100); Conservative 32RPM, Commuting: 38-42RPM, Aggressive: 48-60RPM. In this case, aggressive would be an uncommon, if not rare situation when the lane I'm in is ending, and I need to get ahead because slowing down isn't an option. Otherwise, I wouldn't reccomend shifting that late. 2 big reasons: 1. It will guzzle gas like you wouldn't believe! 2. While this may be only on my car, it allows the fan blades on the alernator to flex way too much in the direction of the belt. I have had the problem of where I didn't have the car in gear when shifting, and it popped into neutral. The RPMs jumped up to over 70. Next thing I knew, the alternator chewed my belt, and I had to replace it. It's a plug I know, but if you want to really clean out you fuel system, try a bottle of Berryman's Total Fuel System Cleanup. You're not going to nessisarily be slammed into your seat, but it does noticable improce accelleration and power. -Robert vin 6585 "X" --- In dmcnews@xxxx, "sgskbm" <SGSKBM@xxxx> wrote: <SNIP> > Anyway, I noticed that if I was under 2,500 RPM's the car seemed > to "lug" in 4th and 5th gears. If you are cruising and you are in 5th > gear 2,500 RPMS seems to be around 60 or 65 MPH. If you accelerate, > at 2,200 to around 2,500 it will "lug" a little. I do not remember if > this is normal or not. At 2,500 RPMs and above no problem. > > The car runs great other then this issue and it performs well at the > top end, idles and starts great. <SNIP>