How many of you guys have banged off the rev limiter?

I have shifted at a hair over the indicated 6500 quite a few times but never hit the limiter. I'm not really afraid to, just haven't yet. Just wondering how many .orgers open the VQ ALL the way up.

 

i did accidentally when i was in P and i was reaching for something in the back seat. scared the **** out of all the pedestrians.

 

Nothing will happen. Most of the time you dont need to go that high, I need to because of the 00vi.

 

yeah i gotta watch out too cause of my mevi, and i also gotta watch the 3rd to 4th switch not the 3rd to 2nd and 7900rpms after that.(scared the ish outta me there)

 

I hit it a few times, you just feel the engine backing off. It feels like you applied the brakes some.

Only happened twice to me.

 

happened to me when I was in first...im an auto and i was driving the gears manually.... music was loud and i didnt realize i was still in 1st.... scared me for a few secs

 

did it twice...was trying to see how it accelerate. first gear, then second, then it hits the rev limiter. didn't realize it untill it cuts off till rev went back to around 5500 (if i'm not mistaken)... then it works normal as it supposed to.

 

Did it once while racing

 

All the time even with the auto. It pulls so hard in 1st and 2nd with the turbo that the auto can't shift fast enough. Doesn't hurt anything, it's just annoying.

 

We threw a rod out the side of the block without ever hitting the rev limiter. But thats a story for another time

 

Did it a couple times by accident, though there's really no point in going that high w/out VI

 

i almost hit it when i was driving in 5th gear.......i jut ran out of road

 

how bout now?

 

I bounce off the rev limiter occasionally when my neighbors **** me off and I want to return the favor.

 

at least once a day.

 

sometimes in auto0x it better to hit the rev limiter than to waste time shifting whren ur about to head into a turn....so i hit it all the time.....thats waht its there for....now if ur like my buddy who drives an M3 and goes from 5th to 2nd and the rev limiter cant keep up and turns 3 pistons to tin foil then u got a problem....but it usually wont do any thing

 

Rev limiter won't keep the engine from over-revving if you downshift at high rpm.

 

At that time it would just be mechanical force pushing the engine that high.

I'm game for this story.

 

ive come close to the redline in my 98 auto, i will get there some day lol. but i have it in a 03 se auto, that was fun ;-) lol

 

I want to hear that story.

 

I have a 5-speed. When does the rev limiter kick in? I have red-lined the engine a few times, ie. taken it up to 6,500 rpm, but since reading the stickies realize that you get the best results shifting at 6,550 going from 1st to 2nd, but below the redline going from 2nd to 3rd and 3rd to 4th at the rpms shown in the sticky.

What does it feel like when the rev limiter kicks in?

 

rev limiter is at 6.5K, try to rev past and the ecu will cut power.

It feels like you stepped on the brakes a little, thats the best way I can describe it. You feel the car backing off and slowing down.

 

i hit it the other day by accident. the mevi pulls so fast up top i didnt know i was so close to the limiter.. opps

 

I may have hit it once then a couple of years or so ago. IIRC, I had the tunes blaring at the time.

You might ask what is this old f#ck doing with the tunes blaring, lol! I grew up in the muscle car days and still have a compulsion to crank Led Zeppelin or The Doors through the roof when I hear them on a classic rock station I listen to.

I hope not to hit it again as in other than 1st gear, you're better off to shift at between 6,000 and 6,200 depending on what gear you're in. See the sticky developed by SteVTEC.

I believe it is in the 1/4 mile forum.

 

Did it on accident a few times, threw it in 1st (auto) to try and get a decent launch from a stop light, and completely forgot to shift to drive, either way, stupid mistake thank you nissan

 

a supercharged vq

barked 2nd and 3rd

 

All the f'ucking time (5x/week) ... 7200 RPM 231k miles

 

its easy to tell when you have hit it because your blow off valve will vent , in all honesty just go out and put your car in neutral and hit it so you will know what it is like....its not big deal. I hit it in first all the time, once the car looses traction it hits the rev limiter very quickly. Its kinda hard to describe how it feels other than the car stutters, and then goes and then stutters, from bouncing of the rev limiter.

 

Not all of us are boosted cardana .

 

alright you keep saying that... how many of those 231k miles did u actually drive?

 

but to answer the question i have an auto i maybe brought it up to 6.5k like 6 or 7 times since iv owned it.. thats all it will do anywayz..........

 

too bad

 

56k warning much?

Did you steal that from FNF y0!!

 

Must have hit that 6500 at least 10 times since ive had it. Once while racing, shifted a tad late (auto). Sometimes I like to pull out onto the main road while hitting it, and naturally the wheels spin cause im turning so it shifts to 2nd early, wheels catch, and then it downshifts back to 1, so I force it in 1 and thats when I hit that rev limiter while the wheels are spinning, then they catch, and RPMS go down a bit, then again quickly up ya know how it goes. Hasn't hurt my car in any way to hit the rev limiter, so I cant say its bad to hit that rev limiter. Like how it sounds at 6500

 

Anyone whoever gets a 'newly' installed; VI, you will do it at twice as much when first installed... for some unknown reason

 

im at the limit more than idle thats just how i roll and why i hav a MEVI so i can scream past all those G35's....................................LOL

-Ryan

 

Too true. The revs climb very quickly with a VI.

 

I heard if you hit the rev limiter more than once your car will explode and open a wormhole that will suck in everything within an 8 mile radius and deposit it in the Andromeda galaxy. Is this true?

 

Dork! My friend did it in an auto when he was racing once, he was manually shifting it (of course) and it took him a second to realize what was going on, funniest thing I've heard. Went NyaaNyaaNyaaNyaaNyaa clunk into second gear. Don't know if there is any long term effects, as he wrecked the car not long after.

 

u know looking at this.. this is the stupidest thread ive ever seen. go drive a turbo car and see what speeding to the rev limiter really is. i just sold my eclipse that i had DSMlink on and i set my rev limit for 8K and i was hitting it on the 1st->2nd shift every time because it just spun after spooling(fwd) if you guys are scared to hit the limit then you mayaswell not mod at all. hitting the rev limit is like a part of driving cars for me if theres no top end aka USIM theres no reason for it. but if your FI or 00vi or MEVI im sure yall have hit the limit a few times its not like its going to blow your engine or somthing. I just hate people that drive like a grandma but install like y pipes, superchargers, all that, Then go to the track to watch. I dont know what it is about this thread but it just pinches a nerve

-Ryan