Hitting rev limiter....

[LordLo]

My friend was doing a donut in his mk3 supra. We got into an argument. He was on the rev limit for 4 seconds at 7,000 rpms and I told him it would damage his engine. He said it wouldn't.... well long story short, he concluded that the rev limited was set to protect the engine.

In my personal opinion it would errode the bearings and rings... what do you guys think?

 

[BorHor]

If you don't hold it there forever i think your engine should be fine.

 

[bigaaron]

The rev limiter is like the shift light for Toyotas!

 

[88supraFAST1]

yes the rev is safe and yes it will damage an engine the 7m stock is not ment to rev all day. bounceing off the rev is bad it make the engine surge wicth cause wrong ware patern also the car gose into safe mode when rev is hit witch if you hold it long enough you can get a check engine light. so yes the rev is safe and yes it will damage the engine along with other compants of the car. the MK3 is an old car you have to treat it right witch means not taking it to RL and doing your regularly maintain.

 

[ma71supraturbo]

Hitting the rev limiter won't due any "damage." But running the engine at that rpm for long periods of time will obviously cause more accelerated wear than putting around at idle...

 

[vas85]

If he's "SMART" of which smart is the keyword, he would feather it around 4-5000rpm... you dont need foot flat to be doing a burnotu, its not like its a 1.6litre 4cylinder... my Supra breaks traction easily at 2500-3000rpm without even being on boost so I dont know what 7000rpm would be doing LOL... shouldn't kill it.. thats what rev limiters are for, the purpose of not making the engine go bang, i'm sure engineers that designed the car woudl have also had the engine running at its rev limit for a while to inspect and analyse results for fine tuning etc... but yeah.. once its wheelspinning he should just have to feather it and keep it a nice rev range (at peak torque that is ).

 

[vas85]

Hitting the rev limiter won't due any "damage." But running the engine at that rpm for long periods of time will obviously cause more accelerated wear than putting around at idle...

Ditto.. excellently said.

 

[SupaMan]

jeez if hitting the limiter was omfg bad then my motor would be dead ive kissed limiter alot.

 

[pimptrizkit]

balencing helps the trip to redline and back ..

 

[SupraDupra500]

i tend to run mine hard from time to time. since ive rebuilt the engine about 4 months ago, ive hit rev limit just 6 or 7 times. a couple of times i went wot racing random cars, and the gas pedal got stuck on the floor mat when i shifted oops! (no more floor mats now) and theres the rev limit on the occasional mis-shift and a couple times what i tried to drift in the rain.. <---FTL and what vas85 said about burnouts.. ive done that showing off.. i hald it at 4500 and smoked the living hell out of that parking lot

but i agree with the others.. no damage.. but accelerated wear

 

[antman]

In my opinion "accelerated wear" is damage. For peace of mind i stay out of the rev limiter.

 

[RacerXJ220]

I wouldn't hit readline on a 7M unless I had to. I seldom had to.

A lot of drifters who take the 7M to redline blow the motors. Maintenence? Maybe. I know they sell their MKIII's for pieces of shit 240's, and redline the KA motors all day long, every time out to drive, and they are still going.

I am convinced without loss, that redlining the 7M is a quick way to shorten it's life, piston speeds are up there.

 

[OneJoeZee]

me and the rev limiter are really good friends. I visit him often.

 

[NeatOman]

I even did a 3ed gear burnout on my old 89n/a auto with some old ass goodyears. No need to rev high.. just shift up!