If so what's the redline? Input from 22RE drivers will be appreciated also.

According to this site. I'd be at 4288 RPM at 65 in 3rd gear. I don't go above 60 in 3rd on steep highway grades, but i'd like to know how close I am to the redline when I do that.

Thanks.

P.S. I have 4.30 gears, the closest estimation on that link is 4.27.

 

my 81 4x4 with a 22r i use for a dialy driver is a SR5 model with the tach in the instrument cluster and the redline is 5500 rpm.

 

I set my warning thing at about 4200RPM, I went ahead and took the car up to 23mph, and then set the needle a little lower than where it was reading. The owners manual says not to exceed 25mph in first gear, so thats how I based that decision. Here's a pic, although, in the pic it is higher than it is now.

 

Ok. That's kinda useful. Did you guys have that site crunch your numbers?

And Plays_With_Toys, does that odometer say 93900 miles? Did someone disconect the spedo cable for 10 years before you got it? I'm at 206000 now.

 

my '79 with a 20R has the in-dash tach redline set at 5500. i'm pretty sure a 22R has a 5500RPM redline, while a 20R has a 6500RPM redline(due to the hemi head design)

personally i wouldn't go above 4500

 

You read correctly. I am the 3rd owner, the first was a mechanic, and he didn't use it much, but took good care of it, the 2nd hardly ever drove it (my neighbor), in fact, I never saw it move, but he says he took it out maybe once a month, 2 or 3 times in winter. And now I have it. When I bought it, it had 78,000 miles on it, and now I am at 94,500. $3,700. The paint is junk, and the bed is rusty, but I have seen plenty with more miles and in the same condition going for about that.

 

jx94148 i checked my numbers on that site and it seems whey off on how fast you will be going and the rpm's. i agree with kyle 22r that going above 4500 it just makes more niose you don't really gain any acceleration. thats where i usually shift or a little sooner.

 

I have the 22RE, installed an aftermarket tach, and set the red line at 5000. Very scientific approach to choosing 5000 RPMs. I drove around and reved the crap out of the engine. Decided that I couldn't stand how it sounded above 5000, made me think it would start flinging out internal parts any minute.

 

Just out of curiousity...where'd you get the tach? And how hard was the install?

 

FWIW, 22R's with auto trans came with a tach as well. Never could figure hat one out.

 

Not sure whose post your referring to, but I got mine from Checkers/ Schucks Kragen for $20, and the install was a cake. The 22r(e)'s have a pre-out for a tachomoter. Its by the starter, its a little green plastic piece that has a black cap on it. Take the cap off and plug the signal wire in. The hardest part was when I wired behind my dimmer switch but wired the wrong side, so when I give juice to the dash lights, my tach dims out, and vice versa. It actually requires a full 12v for proper illumination, so the dimmer switch is a bad idea