Back to the original question ... at exactly what RPM does the AP2 redline? 8,200 ,8,300 or somewhere in between

 

The 2.2L engine in the AP2 S2000 redlines at 8000 rpms. The rev limiter is set to 8200 rpms. Redline is a "soft" recommendation which is supposed to be the absolute maximum rpm you should shift at. The rev limiter is an ECU induced limit that basically says "enough is enough" and won't allow you to rev the car anymore. On older cars, the redline was soft, and you could actually rev past the redline until you blew your engine.

To make it short and sweet, you cannot normally rev your engine higher than 8200 rpms on the AP2 2.2L S2000s. You could technically overrev your engine by downshifting into a lower gear and traveling at a speed which forces the engine to rev more than 8200 rpms ... but doing that would most likely result in a blown engine and for obvious reasons is not something desirable.

 

actually, there is a rev limiter on the ap1's as well.. its set to 9200 or 9300, I forget. I've hit it a few times, myself


but you can't bypass the rev limiter unless you downshift and blow your engine that way .

so in the rev limiter aspect, all s2000s have them.

 

When the small yellow lines,on that big dial,called a RPM,become RED.!!!

 

Thank you for your clear answer, LiQiCE. Until now, I've been thinking of the redline RPM and the RPM that invokes the rev-limiter as the same thing. Contributing to the confusion is the rapid climb of engine RPM in VTEC and the fact that my attention is generally focused on the road in front of me when each event is encountered.

 

He meant on OLDER OLDER cars xD

 

ah-ha.. whoops my bad. guess i'm too young to have really driven any of those cars..