This may sound like a stupid question from someone like myself, who doesn't know a whole lot about the internal workings of a car engine (I just like driving cars). Anyway, what I'm asking is why does the engine on the S2K cut out when it reaches 9K revs (and correspondingly less with one or 2 bars showing on the temperature indicator)? On any of my previous cars, I can never recall the engine ever cutting out completely when reving to the max. I always thought I could rev to the max, and stay there all day if I wanted to.

Is there a technical reason why this happens on the S2K? Can the rev limiter cut-out feature be overridden so you could stay at 9K for longer?

 

it keeps you from bending your valves or worse..

 

You can stay at 9k all day long. The limitter is set for 9.2K, not a time duration. Its still possible to overrev. Miss a shift like say instead of 4th put it in second... The limitter does not have time to act. I have a friend who did that in his Prelude. He cracked some rings and bent valves. Of course he was spraying as well at the time.

 

Be glad that you have a rev limiter 1Y2K!

FYI, accidentally sticking it in a lower gear defeats a rev limiter for sure, but it has nothing to do with not having "enough time to act." The rev limiter cannot stop a 2,800 pound car when you just selected a ratio that will try to rev the motor to like, 11,000 rpms!!

 

You meant "praying", didn't you?

 

Thanks for the insight, guys, but I wasn't asking if we could over-rev - just asking why the engine cuts out altogether (fuel cut off?) at 9.2K. As I said....I recall on my previous manual cars that I could rev all the way up to a FIXED limit, but the engine would not just die like the S2K does; it was the limit, and that was it - you stayed at max revs until either you took your foot off the accelerator, or you changed gear.

 

I think most modern cars have a rev limiter as part of the management system to protect you from wrecking the engine. It's just that most cars don't want to make you hit the limiter like this one does

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Allan Haggai
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FYI, accidentally sticking it in a lower gear defeats a rev limiter for sure, but it has nothing to do with not having "enough time to act."

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by gabedude
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Care to explain?

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by 1Y2KS2K
[B]You meant "praying", didn't you?