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rev limiter mystery
Tuesday, June 13, 2006 2:16 PM
anyone know why when I'm not moving my rev limiter is set at 4k but while moving if I rev it in nuetral it seems to not have a limit?
thanks guys

Re: rev limiter mystery
Tuesday, June 13, 2006 2:20 PM
Just out of curiosity, why are you wanting to rev so high in neautral? I hope your not wanting to just dump it into drive from high revs Dont quote me on this but I think it is set like this to safe gaurd damage to the engine, desides you dont need to rev so high while not in gear any how. Hope this helps?
Re: rev limiter mystery
Tuesday, June 13, 2006 2:28 PM
I'm not planning on doing anything like that and I don't want to change how it is, I'm just curious why it is like that
Re: rev limiter mystery
Tuesday, June 13, 2006 2:38 PM
Because the Rev Limiters in the ECU are defined as Moving or Not Moving, they don't have any bearing on what gear you are in.





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Re: rev limiter mystery
Tuesday, June 13, 2006 2:39 PM
Thats how the PCM is set up, you actually have 2 rev limiters, moving and not moving as its listed in HP tuners

Its so idiots dont rev it to 6500 at idle, at least Gm did something right



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Re: rev limiter mystery
Tuesday, June 13, 2006 2:42 PM
thanks rodimus, yeah it's a good idea on GM's part, but does it damage anything if u bounce off the "not-moving" rev limiter? not that I plan on doing that but have so in the past, just wondering?
Re: rev limiter mystery
Tuesday, June 13, 2006 2:44 PM
nope its a fuel cut rev limiter, doing it a few times wont hurt anything but I wouldnt make a habit of it, it works the same as the moving one



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Re: rev limiter mystery
Tuesday, June 13, 2006 2:51 PM
thanks again


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Re: rev limiter mystery
Tuesday, June 13, 2006 3:17 PM
im sure they made this not only for idiots that want to rev it up in park but also lets say there is a situation where the car is in park and something falls or somehow something lands on the gas pedal or throttle and it would rev up but would have the protection of the limiter to keep the engine from going ka-BOOM



Re: rev limiter mystery
Tuesday, June 13, 2006 3:35 PM
I wasnt trying to be an a@#, some ppl have asked that same question so they could do neautral drops at higher revs. Sorry if it came off the wrong way.
Re: rev limiter mystery
Tuesday, June 13, 2006 4:02 PM
not much of a mystery since it gets asked alot , a quick search woulda told you the info you needed


it was done to help save the trans missions from droping into gear at high rpm and causing failure , is the biggest reason








Re: rev limiter mystery
Wednesday, June 14, 2006 9:22 AM
[quote=97cavie24ls(JDM&00s/c sedans™)]it was done to help save the trans missions from droping into gear at high rpm and causing failure , is the biggest reason

DING DING DING DING DING DING DING!!!!!

Kinda hard to do neutral drops from 4000rpm in most cars that way. I'm sure there's some that can. My GTP probably can, but i've never tried it.





Re: rev limiter mystery
Wednesday, June 14, 2006 11:57 AM
Shifted wrote:Because the Rev Limiters in the ECU are defined as Moving or Not Moving, they don't have any bearing on what gear you are in.

That can't be 100% so. My 96 z24 auto will not rev over 4k in park or N, but if I put it just between N and D or Nand R, or P and R it will rev to normal rev limiter. It is in gear but not in gear sort of. Maybe it has something to do with it being a 96.



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Re: rev limiter mystery
Wednesday, June 14, 2006 12:03 PM
Josh Fodor wrote:thanks again
98 cavy LS 4 door, with Z24 motor swap, performance chip, soon to have slight intake modifications and an exhaust cut-out


Did anyone else notice the "performance chip" part?



Re: rev limiter mystery
Wednesday, June 14, 2006 12:43 PM
I did but ignored it since the question was of the dumb newb style anyways. LOL.



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Re: rev limiter mystery
Wednesday, June 14, 2006 2:59 PM
omg is that the 200hp gain chip...oh man i been lookin for one of those...

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Re: rev limiter mystery
Wednesday, June 14, 2006 3:21 PM
they are like 10 bucks on ebay lol



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