redlining

[nadroj]

redlinning is it really that bad for you engine?

 

[Ben]

yes, well going to the redline isnt that bad but going over it is.

 

[nadroj]

so going to 6500 on my 318is is bad

 

[mjbst111]

your engine will not let you do anything that is "bad" for it. It has a limiter, unless you have a chip which makes the limit higher.

 

[Average Jae]

i dun know if it's particularly good for the car, but thanks to the rev limiter, it's not bad either. let me know when the engine starts smoking

 

[mikev]

your engine will not let you do anything that is "bad" for it. It has a limiter, unless you have a chip which makes the limit higher.

the car will allow you to do anything and it souldn't brake straight away. however if you bounce it of the rev limiter for a sustained period (track day for example) it can brake. its not bad in fact it actually helps extend the lift of the car by giving it a good workout once in a while!

 

[Ryan Stewart]

I redline mine every day. And probably 600 times each trackday. I also have had a chip for a while that increased the limiter almost 600 RPM.

 

[bahnstormer]

redline is the factory's idea of the engine's limit.
sometimes they buid em better than they think,
and you can go over the red line usuing a chip.

however DO NOT shift into 2gear when you're
going 100mph, no chip or electronic rev limiter
will save you there =]

its good to rev your engine it helps reduce carbon
buildup (which is produced at low rpms) and also
keeps your injectors a little bit cleaner when you
go WOT

 

[mjbst111]

however if you bounce it of the rev limiter for a sustained period (track day for example) it can brake.

If you bounce off your rev limiter it still shouldn't break.

Anyway my friend hated his acura integra and every moning in the winter he would go out to his car, start it and floor it to bounce it off the limiter until it got completely warmed up.

my cousin ownes it now and to this day it doesn't smoke or have any other problems. I really wouldn't recommend doing it though. Not when it is cold at least. I don't know if he is just lucky or if it survived just cause he hated it.

 

[mikev]

If you bounce off your rev limiter it still shouldn't break.

im not going to go mad here as you are the first one BUT. read what i wrote properly. if you hit the rev limit then yes it will more likely than not be fine. if (like i said) you keep it up there at 7k or what ever you rev to for half an hour then you WILL over heat and you WILL brake somthing

 

[nadroj]

yea but who keeps it bouncing off the rev limiter for more than half an hour

 

[mjbst111]

you know i thought since your quote was right above what i said than you would know that i was going along with your bouncing off the rev limiter for a substantial amount of time... what you wrote was properly read don't fret.

Do you know for sure that it would overheat? Not saying for sure that it wouldn't cause i don't want to disagree with you. Do you know how fast your fan would be running if you were redlining with a hot engine? A mechanical fan would be heard a mile away. it would blow so much air i am not sure if you could overheat. but i never did try it on my car cause i'm not crazy and i love it.

I have a guess that when they produce a vehicle they redline it in neutral to make sure they can withstand a bouncing redline for a substantial amount of time.

In fact i do know that honda of america has all kinds of test like that. they take thier civics offroading and try to break them so they can improve them. I'm pretty sure they do the same with their engines.

 

[nadroj]

i dont know that i will overheat for sure b/c i would never test it out on my car. but im sure it would overheat adventually.