redlining

ok super noob question here. got an ek4 and today i redlined it cause i forgot to change the gears (super noob driver) and it made this cRUNGG sound in first.. just want to make sure that no immediate damage will be done to the car... opinions?

ur car has a factory limiter to prevent ur car from over-revving. no damage so long as u didnt hold it there for like 5 minutes

ok cool cheers

lol i remember when it first happened to me in my DC5R i shat myself lol
Researched it and yeah lol

how bad is it to redline if ur doing it for like a second?

^^^ Nothing will happen. As NSPYRE said the limiter would have cut fuel off to the engine.. However it may be a different case if say, you're traveling at 120km/h and you've accidentally shifted down to the 2nd gear (not sure how that would be possible!).

ok thanks, sorry to steal the thread for a bit shin2

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Originally Posted by neo_phase

^^^ Nothing will happen. As NSPYRE said the limiter would have cut fuel off to the engine.. However it may be a different case if say, you're traveling at 120km/h and you've accidentally shift down to the 2nd gear (not sure how that would be possible!).

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lol. ive always wondered wat wuld happen in that situation. im not game 2 try it though haha

mayb engine blows up? LOL or nothing will happen like GT? :P

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Originally Posted by pinoy-boi

lol. ive always wondered wat wuld happen in that situation. im not game 2 try it though haha

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the gearbox will force the engine to over-rev, the electronic rev limiter won't stop this because it happens mechanically
it will bend something

from what i've seen on a friends RX-7 during a quarter mile run, he slammed it from red line in 3rd to 2nd cause he mis-shifted into 4th (still to this day do not know how he managed this) and all that happened was the rear wheels lock up until he realised wat had happened about 3 seconds later and put it back into 3rd.

after the run, we jacked her up, had a look and all was good from wat we cld see. got it back home and had it booked in to be inspected. no damage.

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Originally Posted by NSPYRE

from what i've seen on a friends RX-7 during a quarter mile run, he slammed it from red line in 3rd to 2nd cause he mis-shifted into 4th (still to this day do not know how he managed this) and all that happened was the rear wheels lock up until he realised wat had happened about 3 seconds later and put it back into 3rd.

after the run, we jacked her up, had a look and all was good from wat we cld see. got it back home and had it booked in to be inspected. no damage.

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wat work was done to the rx7??

dats wat i kinda wuld hve thought wuld happen, bt with abit more damage lol