I know it's a safety feature but I can't help but feel terrible every time I accidentally hit the limiter in 1st gear when I'm spiritedly driving. =(

 

In Most cases NO on Upshifting with stock rev. limit RPM with a sound motor.

 

Won't hurt a thing except maybe your ego;-)

In the old (ha, ha) days, they didn't have rev limiters. You just watch the tach, if you were lucky enough to have one. And then if you did have one, you most likely had it install it yourself and set the adjustable redline to what you thought was prudent. Even then when in a race it was pretty common to exceed the redline. Too many times and it was not very good for the big ends of the rods. It would pound and elongate the bearings and soon things would start to knock.

 

Do it enough times and you'll bust a retainer, then drop a valve and jam a piston. Then it's motor rebuild time. Be cautious...

 

i cringe when it happens and have blown mafs that way but i've never fully gotten used to the extra 500rpm on top from my tune. it happens to all of us sometimes. seems like right about the time i'm pegging the limter, the tach is the last thing i'm lookin at

 

I guess I am lucky with my Protomotive Tune because my rev limit is 7450rpm and I hit the limiter occasionally but have never blown a map yet..

 

^ i haven't blown a maf since i replaced it ( finally ) with an oem bosch. maybe i'm being more careful now that my maf cost 150 for a "real" one instead of the $40 imposter on fleabay lol

 

Its good to see the new maf is holding up better, hope that cures that problem= at least for longer intervals.

 

This was an interesting question to post. I hate when I hit the limiter but it's nearly impossible not to especially in 1st and 2nd gear once the tires break loose. I'm not sure where EPL moved the redline to on my tune but I think its around 7200 which isn't that bad but it feels like it is picking up revolutions so quickly once traction breaks that it somehow goes a few hundred RPM past the limiter.
Thank god for rev-limiters or I can't imagine the number of super sized Mezger paperweights there would be laying around.

 

I did a datalog and hit 7330 once in 3rd gear on a pull and I was watching that little rpm gauge like a rat hunting peanut butetr and dint see it even near the 7000 line in he car...... now I have tuned to hit only 7000 rpm

 

[QUOTE=group.america;4101552]I did a datalog and hit 7330 once in 3rd gear on a pull and I was watching that little rpm gauge like a rat hunting peanut butetr and dint see it even near the 7000 line in he car...... now I have tuned to hit only 7000 rpm [/QUOTE


It really helps to have a high rev limit for the 1st to 2nd shift mostly because of the gear recovery RPM spread between those two gears..