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Oct 28, 2004 | 07:41 AM

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UNC04SuzukaBlue

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[QUOTE=scguy,Oct 28 2004, 06:55 AM]To be honest ( and Im sure some of you are going to call me a pu%%y)

Oct 28, 2004 | 09:11 AM

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DimaK321

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Originally Posted by UNC04SuzukaBlue,Oct 28 2004, 10:41 AM

I wouldn't feel too bad or ashamed or whatever about not hitting 9K yet. I'm a strong believer in a driver break-in period for this car, even if the engine is already broken in. Gives you a chance to get comfortable with everything (like you said) before trying to fast shift at 9K. A lot of these "Bad shift: I may have blown my engine" threads seem to be from relatively new owners.

if i were you, i wouldn't even think about 9000 RPM

Oct 28, 2004 | 09:15 AM

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SIIK2NR

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Originally Posted by Woodson,Oct 28 2004, 06:44 AM

What do you think you're driving? An '04?

Very funny

SMART ASS!!

Oct 28, 2004 | 09:57 AM

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hpark

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Originally Posted by SIIK2NR,Oct 28 2004, 09:15 AM

Very funny

SMART ASS!!

haha it was clever

Oct 28, 2004 | 10:24 AM

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[QUOTE=scguy,Oct 28 2004, 06:08 AM] So yesterday im sitting at a red light and this punk pulls up with his 99/00 eclipse GT (stock as far as I can tell). Now I know that I should be able to take him but he actually kept up with me through the first two gears. I started pulling away when the 3rd gear went into V-tech.

I know there are guys on here that post stuff like:

Kill list

Oct 28, 2004 | 10:42 AM

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sorry just looked it up...only applicable to 2000-2002 model years. the 2003 and up models have an engine limiter installed that prevents this

Oct 28, 2004 | 11:07 AM

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Woodson

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Originally Posted by hellothere,Oct 28 2004, 12:24 PM

shift after the fuel limiter has kicked in...here's how it works:

pop in the clutch real fast momentarily but keep in gear and keep pushing the gas..after maybe 2-3 seconds the rpm will continue to rise to almost 9,900 rpm...dont do this all the time because i heard many time (and its pretty obvious) that this is not good for the engine

WTF?