Hitting your rev limiter

[obi_waynne]

How often have you or do you hit your rev limiter?

 

[st24]

Try not to! so guess answer is never!

 

[HDi fun]

Very hard to do with Steptronic transmission -$

It totally wrests control from you if you try to be daft with it

 

[claymore]

Just raised it out of the way

 

[SLEEPER]

I did that and raised it to 8350 but I have still been known to hit it .

Got carried away last year racing a 35GTR (on an airfield) and hit it in third.

 

[HDi fun]

I don't think hitting the factory set limiter is a problem to be honest. K if you're daft and go from 6th to 2nd at 120mph the limiter won't help you

 

[pgarner]

npe no point in the smoky diesel, think i may have hit it a few times in the bora but then again it was really out of puff by the limiter as well

 

[HDi fun]

In factory tune the limiter is set well above peak power and torque, usually well into the red on the rev meter as well.

Not much to gain from hitting it really.

You'll not do any damage either if the engine's fully warm and well maintained.

 

[old-git]

With the all steel, dry sumped, twin cam in the Elan, MANY years ago, I took the factory limiter out as it was set at around 7000. Engine/cam combination in my engine would rev to 9500 but kept it to 9000. I will miss that noise, it was fantastic.

 

[aston]

Never in my own cars but several times in hire cars a few moons ago

 

[Loz]

Peak power comes in before the red line so there seems little point carrying on after that.

 

[stamford]

Peak power comes in before the red line so there seems little point carrying on after that.

Correct, never hit it as no point. I have the shift light set lower when on track.

 

[Yugguy]

I do very occasionally when the engine is proper warm to give it a good blow out. I can do it in semi auto mode but in drive it'll change before the limiter

 

[T9 man]

I have never done that, no idea what the sensation would be like either.

 

[davalav]

I have never done that, no idea what the sensation would be like either.

Loud and gives you goose pimples...

The little MG revs silly high, but never taken it above 6000ish RPM... Great fun when on the back roads down my way. Luckily we get a lot of passers by who don't use the back roads.

 

[stamford]

I have never done that, no idea what the sensation would be like either.

Similar to riding a 50cc restricted moped downhill and it farts alot when you have reached maximum warp drive!

 

[davalav]

similar to riding a 50cc restricted moped downhill and it farts alot when you have reached maximum warp drive!

lmao! I think we are talking about different things then....

 

[old-git]

Stamford is talking about the effect a rev limitier has on an engine. It cuts power so the engine coughs and bangs.

 

[davalav]

I thought we were replying to T9's post about what it feels like... Unless I have confused my self once again... Which I have after re reading your post, OG.

 

[stamford]

Sometimes it could be the senior ones having a 'moment' :blink1:

 

[gummy]

I have done it once on the r33 just after i got it,i was seeing how well it went!!

 

[aston]

Peak power comes in before the red line so there seems little point carrying on after that.

There is in a hire car:bigsmile:

 

[T9 man]

There is in a hire car:bigsmile:

Oh that's so naughty

 

[old-git]

Sometimes it could be the senior ones having a 'moment' :blink1:

It usually is what I call a CRAFT moment