so as i was driving the other day i put the car in N and hit the gas...a lil too hard and it went through the red area on the tach, i assume that'd be the red line, however it didn't cause any damage, and now the car runs better, a lil more power is how to describe it. am i reading the red area wrong, and that's not the redline just a shift point? what's going on that would cause that...other than my stupidity for revving it

 

N? I only see 12345 on both my cars... hmmm odd...

Maybe you cleared its throat..

 

I think thats called an Italian Tune up.... Knock some of the carbon off the inside of the engine

 

Hell yeah! ..... it needs to breathe sometimes. Wind that little engine up!

Do you have a chip that raised the rev limiter? The stock limit should be 6500 (I believe... could be wrong), but I know the chip I have raises it to 7000. Maybe thats why you didn't hit the limiter.

If it runs better just bumping it up there, you should do it again.... seriously. It does help burn some carbon out of the engine if you're a "part throttle" driver. I hit 6500 in 2nd a few times a week lol. No harm done.

 

i know about clearing the carbon out, i don't really run the car to 6500, but i'd say 2x a week i get it up to 5500-6000rpm. as for a chip, no, my car engine-wise is stock.

as for this incident it went straight through the 7k mark. i plan on taking the oil pan off in a couple weeks time, i think i'm going to give a good look see make sure everything is still torque'd properly.

N=Neutral. i was rolling up to a red light, instead of downshifting, i waiting till it came down to 1500k, pulled out of 2nd, and pushed the throttle. it didn't bounce off a limiter at all...which is nice but at the same time not. limiters save motors, but also cause damage

 

I'm sure your engine is fine. You wouldn't cause damage to the crank or rods bouncing off of 7000rpm. What I believe would go first would be bending a valve from the valves floating under high rpm.

Your valves didn't float.... or not enough for a piston to hit it. Its all good!

 

absolutely no problem to do that on our cars!!

Now if you said you were doing 90 on Rt 78 and down shifted from 5th to 2nd...exceeding the redline....THAT would be a problem.

I bump the rev limiter every time I go to the track...at least once per event.

No harm done !

 

play like you're in nasa and put in a light.

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Nahh...no light for me !

Don't want to molest the interior...it's a street car.

Besides...it hurts nothing.

Generally it happens when I am accelerating hard in a straight and need to check my mirror because someone (in just about any other porsche) is crawling up my "6".

 

i have the stock shift light, a lot of goo that does, it tells me to upshift in 5th...

as long as nothing really happened, my mind is at ease, but being an auto tech, kinda made me wonder y nothing [I]did[I] happen. i'll still take a look when the pan is off, not much to see but the bottom end. if i get the time, then i'll do the top end

 

Mine used to tell me to upshift in 5th as well... but it hasn't done it anymore. It's kind of like it learned... lol

 

that's more for mileage than running to redline.

i had the gage in the t-boned 87944S and it lit up thru all the gears, not just into 5th.

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95sl320 dd