Tickling the rev limiter
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Tickling the rev limiter
Got a quick lil question, I put my Iroc sideways a lil too fast and I tickeled the rev limiter, I think I even hit the limiter, not sure too loud of a car haha. My question is, is that gonna hurt my motor at all? I got an msd on the way to help me with that
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Re: Tickling the rev limiter
Huh? I don't understand your question, you put your car sideways? Were you drifting or something? Do you have a rev-limiter on your car? If so I don't see how you could have hurt your motor, that's why you installed a rev-limiter, so you wouldn't cause damage to your motor. And if you didn't install a rev-limiter, well our cars didn't come with rev-limiters so I dunno what you were "tickling" the red line? If that's the case then read this
https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/tech...ml#post4189772
https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/tech...ml#post4189772
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Re: Tickling the rev limiter
No i wasnt drifting i revved it a lil and let go of the clutch too quickly on perpose and then turned the wheel to go sideways and in doing so i jus about tached out. and i dont have the msd yet with the rev limiter its on its way to being installed
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Re: Tickling the rev limiter
Ah alright, yeah, it's very easy to do that any time you spin the tires. Burn-outs often occur above the 4000 RPM mark for me.
Nah, I doubt you did damage, as long as you didn't spend much time revved way up there then you should be fine.
Read that other post I linked, it has a lot of helpful information on redlining, what it damages, and how you're not very likely to damage anything unless you're very hard on it.
Nah, I doubt you did damage, as long as you didn't spend much time revved way up there then you should be fine.
Read that other post I linked, it has a lot of helpful information on redlining, what it damages, and how you're not very likely to damage anything unless you're very hard on it.
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Re: Tickling the rev limiter
Ok good haha Im worried as hell with it cause the motor only has like 8000 miles on it and I dont wanna hurt it at all
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