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Rev Limiter
- Thread starter Dazz
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LOL.....Dont think your be having it much longer at that rate mate!
Renault Laguna Coupe
Well stop driving it on the grass then!
LOL....In this part of the world its called a car park!
Fairly easy, just let your engine get to normal operating temperature and then pull over and idle the car. Make sure its in neutral - and then bury your accelerator pedal to the floor. If its an RT, it will have a rev counter and you will see it swing right up over 6000rpm. At some point it will "bounce" off the limiter (6500rpm???).
Theres absolutely no harm in revving an engine up to the limiter in normal driving. In fact, if you drive a 16v its pretty much essential (although peak power is about 500rpm before the limiter). Its usually the ancillary parts that get a beating when you drive a car hard. If you drove everywhere in 1st gear at 7000rpm, my guess is that the engine mounts, gbox etc would die before the engine blew up (if it was warmed up properly).
Was a Clio 1.8 16v
Ancillary parts?
Power is force (~torque) multiplied by speed (~revs) so power increases with revs up to and past the point of maximum torque. However, at still higher revs the engine starts to be limited by the amount of air that it can draw in (4 valves per cylinder help) and torque then decreases more rapidly than the revs increase and therefore power also decreases.
http://www.4wdonline.com/A/Power.Torque.htmlhttp://www.4wdonline.com/A/Power.Torque.html
Was a Clio 1.8 16v
Humm, disagree; doesnt cause u any harm IME. Will soon know at York though.
PS: 1/4 mile gear changes; do i full throttle it when changing or as normal? Cheers.
I disagree thrashing any engine does it no good what so ever. Think about rally or F1 cars (I know this is an extreme) their engines need rebuilding after every race, ok you dont drive your cars as hard as that but thrashing it every so often will do similar damage in the end just over a longer time period.
Do any of you actually know anything about engines? Doesnt seem that way.
Anyway if its injected then it has a limiter. It will be about 6500rpm. On the 19s with injection the limiter is at 7krpm.
On the carbed versions theres no limiter. I rev mine to over 8 grand quite often. Its even survived a miss shift ibnto 2nd at over a ton which took the revs up to about 11k.
Done 180k and its not in any danger of blowing up.
Tell you what when I meet you I will roll out a red carpet and give you a big medal as well shall I !!!!!!!!!! Cor I wish I was as clever as you!!!!!!!!!
