Rev Limit

[goubda]

At what point should the Rev Limiter cut in? Mine seems to cut in at 5500rpm which seems a little early to me.

Is there anyway to adjust this if its wrong?

Dave

[Pepsi_x]

Ah ha...glad you asked, I wanna know to, cos, mine seemed to cut in around the 6K mark, but it was hard to tell because the Rev needle seem to wave up and down a bit approaching 5.75/6K, so couldn't quite tell if it cut on 6K or just over....

(S-1998 5.0)

>> Edited by Pepsi_x on Friday 26th July 12:21

[plotloss]

5800rpm I think.

Peak power is 5200rpm on a 450 so everything after that is just noise and wear.

Matt.

[goubda]

Just read a post that says the 500 cuts in at 5500 and 400 at 6000

I have a 400HC

Dont get me wrong, I dont normally rag it that much. When driving fast I normally change at 5000 anyway, but I can get carried away somtimes and expected it to go to the red line, not stop before the yellow one.

Dave

[p7ulg]

6000 for a chimaera 400, so I am told officer

[goubda]

quote:
6000 for a chimaera 400, so I am told officer

So why does min die at 5400-5500?

[.mark]

Hit mine once. Was nearing 6000rpm (4.0) forgot what it was and nearly shat meself for a second!
Reminds me of going to my wedding, the best man was driving us there and we were a tad late, jumped in his motor and was tearing around, we joined the slip road to the by-pass, changed up a gear and the engine lost all it's power
It took about 10 seconds to register he'd gone from 2nd to 5th, that was also quite scary!

[goubda]

Worst expirence of hitting the rev limiter I had was on my bike. Front wheel in the air in first, hit 60mph and the limiter cut in, the front wheel just hit the floor like a ton of bricks, provided me with some scary tank slap and the need to go change my underwear!

[shpub]

quote:At what point should the Rev Limiter cut in? Mine seems to cut in at 5500rpm which seems a little early to me.

Is there anyway to adjust this if its wrong?

Dave

Varies ish from car to car. To change reprogram ECU chip.

Steve
www.tvrbooks.co.uk

[heliox]

my first car was a Ford Anglia with a Holbay BDA 13,000rpm screamer engine..fantastic little motor that loved being thrashed

only thing was when they said it was a 13,000rpm they meant it as at 13,100rpm they explode, which unfortunately I was to find out on an exit out of a corner with a late gearchange, BANG, whoops.

underware also ditched

heliox

[RolexBlue]

My 450 hits the limiter at 6200 nearly a thousand more then whats really useful – I think it depends on what mood Mr TVR was in the day he put the ECU’s together.

Paul