Hey another one of these threads...

just curious of what potential damage i could have or if i damaged anything at all.

well i was crusing @ 62ish...and needed to merge, so i dropped it to 2nd, and i thought i did enough rev matching but, i nailed the rev limiter and saw the speedo @ about 65-70 and quickly pushed in the clutch.

Soo am i screwed ?

thanks

 

You may not quite understand what happened here.
2nd gear in your car is good for 65.2 mph. If you were cruising just over 60 mph, and shifted into 2nd, your engine would have had to still go UP to get to redline. You simply hit the rev-limiter. Whether or not you pushed in the clutch at that point would have made no difference. If you understood the speeds in each gear, you would already have realized that you did not over-rev.

Here is a gear calculator for you to study. Perhaps this will help you understand the relationship between gears, speed and over-rev.
http://www.turnzero.com/technical_resource...gear_calculator

 

ok, i understand a bit better, so i just hit the rev-limiter @ about 9500 (graph doesn't go that high). That should be somewhat ok... Just not as bad as a 3rd n 2nd @ WOT.

that graph helped. thanks

 

You still don't quite understand what happened. If you dumped it into 2nd at about 60 mph, or even 65 mph, unless you were going downhill, you can't get it up to 9500 rpm. The rev limiter stopped you. You can only go past 9000 rpm IF you were ABOVE the max speed of 2nd gear (ie, 65.2 mph) OR if you were accelerating downhill.

 

The rev.limiter,((cut-off)) just did it's job.
Do you understand how it works,and why it's there!!!???

 

If you engaged 2nd going 62ish, no.

If you engaged 2nd going 66ish, possibly . . . ish.

 

It would have to be one hell of a hill at that!

 

from 60-80 i always drop it to 3rd when i want to move.