Today my stupid floor mat managed to slide just enought to stop my gas pedal from springing back. When I went to shift I found out real quick what it sounds like to bounce your tach. Anyway, it went for like 3 sec untill i kicked the mat. Just wondering if in that amount of time I could have damaged something. I was also wondering what parts are really being stressed the most under that circumstance.
Thanx, Matt
Meh, id say probably nothing, the rev limiter does serve its purpose, to keep you from hurting...you. I dont understand , does it sound like theres something wrong? If it runs fine, Id say your good to go, I hit the limiter a lot when racing, although i use my MSD to limit myself by timing instead of fuel cut. Parts that are being stressed at 6k, just about everything, but mostly your lifters and valvetrain id say.
You're fine. Limiters save lives and motors.
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No everything still sounds ok. I was just wondering. Thanx for your help.
To make you feel really safe I've run autocross courses and bounced the rev limiter muliple times. Heck, I've ridden on it before for a good 5 seconds or more not realizing it.
Motor is fine.
Now... if you exceeded the rev limiter....well that's another story and required external management or ECU programming.
I've been told stories of the district VolksWagon chief technician. When VW's don't "feel" right he takes them on the highway and rides the limiter for a good 30 seconds. Fixes the problem. "You americans drive your cars too easy"
-Chris
i dont evan have a rev limiter on my 97 cavy Z24 . in a way i wish i did . i raced a guy one time and hit 7500 and was like oh crap . nothing happened to my motor or anything so i guess i got lucky on that one lol
i drove down a street once bouncing and nothing happened and hit it a couple oif times on a friday peeling out of work and nothing still ecept a bit of burnt oil lol
if the rev limiter fails the computer or ecm shuts the motors off from 93 and up for all j-body's
its nuthing.
Working on obtainting an M-Class license... ?? Hint: 2 wheels.
I know it's not related, but I had a 2003 Nissan Sentra.
One night after a lot of drinking and frustration towards the car, I decided I was going to blow the engine.
To no surpise, it had a rev limiter... so I thought if I held it to the floor for enough time, it might eventually either:
A)Blow; or
B)Catch Fire
Well, neither happened... I held it down for a good 5 or 10 minutes, but I would notice that after a short time... probably 15 seconds of high revving(around 6,500 rpms), it would drop down to a lower 'bracket' and start cutting out at around 3,200 rpms.
But it took it and never blew.
The next morning, I was left with a headache and the wonder of why the hell I tried to do that.
I couldn't notice any negative difference in the car... actually, I think it ran a little better.
It was a fun car to get airborn in.
But that was when I was younger and lived in the mountains.
In 2 years, my foot has eased up a bit.
Especially after totalling that Nissan by slamming into a deer at 70+mph and totalling a Saturn sc2 after flipping it 6 times and grinding on it's top for 50 feet.
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Bob wrote:I know it's not related, but I had a 2003 Nissan Sentra.
One night after a lot of drinking and frustration towards the car, I decided I was going to blow the engine.
To no surpise, it had a rev limiter... so I thought if I held it to the floor for enough time, it might eventually either:
A)Blow; or
B)Catch Fire
Well, neither happened... I held it down for a good 5 or 10 minutes, but I would notice that after a short time... probably 15 seconds of high revving(around 6,500 rpms), it would drop down to a lower 'bracket' and start cutting out at around 3,200 rpms.
But it took it and never blew.
The next morning, I was left with a headache and the wonder of why the hell I tried to do that.
I couldn't notice any negative difference in the car... actually, I think it ran a little better.
It was a fun car to get airborn in.
But that was when I was younger and lived in the mountains.
In 2 years, my foot has eased up a bit.
Especially after totalling that Nissan by slamming into a deer at 70+mph and totalling a Saturn sc2 after flipping it 6 times and grinding on it's top for 50 feet.
Well yeah...
Your limiter doesn't stop you at the motors breaking point of full stress, it stops you before you even get to that point, so you were just wasting gas and making noise. I'm sure it dropped down to 3,000 RPMs because it saw you kept bouncing off the limiter. Remember:
Computer > You
Oh, and good thing a cop didn't see you do something like that cause he would have given you a DWI ticket cause you were behind the wheel of a moving vehicle.
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