I VTEC my car everytime i drive it, sometimes i stay above 6 grand for extended periods most of the time when i'm behind some ricer and i'm waiting for traffic to clear so i can kick his ass... Anyway, i try to bang my shifts right on que and usually do but i have hit the rev limiter once or twice. is it possible to over rev the engine with rev limiter limiting rpms?

 

no.. you are fine. only a prob is u mis-shift (badly) when going down (5th to second for instance)

 

Yep thats right...

The Rev limiter/Fuel cut off is there so you DON'T damage your engine by over revving. Its set to below what the actual mechanical limits on the engine are. Unless you screw up on a downshift at say 90 mph or something and accidentally put it in 2nd gear and just let go of clutch, you'll be fine...

 

Thanks... yes i guess a bad mis shift could really wreck things.

 

Don't look at this as a reason to get careless or anything but...

I mis-shifted once in my civic (I had a JDM ITR motor)... it was a pretty bad mis-shift... I think I was doing ~85 or something and put it in 2nd and let off clutch... I instantly felt that something was wrong and saw my RPMs fly past the redline and everything. The instant I noticed this, I just slammed my clutch pedal back down and put it in neutral for a sec before putting it into 5th.

I had NO damage done to my motor... I'm REALLY paranoid about any car I have, so I had a compression and leakdown test done the next day... Everything came back A-OK. I was still paranoid so I had a valve adjustment done. So basically NOTHING happened to the motor...

What I'm saying is even if you mis-shift carelessly, you can recover and come out with no damage, you just have to be really quick and lucky

In the first week or two that I had my S2K, I actually misshifted to 2nd rather than 4th one or two times. It was nothing serious cuz I was going fast at all so I wasn't going to mechanically over-rev or anything, but just like with my civic, the instant i felt it was weird, I just pushed clutch down... So during ANY downshift, be VERY wary and ready to push clutch down again...

 

i did the same thing in my old lancer, about 80 mph and accidently shifted down into second.......the tach was burried in red! i got scared, but seemed like it did no harm.

a mistake i hope never to make in the S