S2000 Talk Discussions related to the S2000, its ownership and enthusiasm for it.

Will a slight over-rev harm the engine?

Thread Tools
 
Old Jan 7, 2003 | 06:03 PM
  #1  
payneinthe's Avatar
Thread Starter
Registered User
 
Joined: Sep 2002
Posts: 2,677
Likes: 0
From: Upland, CA
Default Will a slight over-rev harm the engine?

The other day, I was cruising along and a car in front of me was going slow, so at about 70 mph, I went to downshift to 4th to pass and hit 2nd instead.

I felt the rev-limiter kick in and saw the red LEDs flash on the tach. Given that 70 is just a tad over the redline for second, I'm guessing that there's probably no damage. Is this a reasonable guess? Is there something I should do to confirm that everything's okay?

I've driven about 300 miles since then w/o problems.
Reply
Old Jan 7, 2003 | 08:23 PM
  #2  
dlq04's Avatar
25 Year Member
 
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 45,761
Likes: 8,275
From: Mish-she-gan
Default

I suspect your OK. The limit in 2nd is about 64 mph and you may have exceed that some but probably not long enough to do any permanent damage. But that was not the rev-limiter kicking in that you felt. The engine rev-limiter is for up shifting during acceleration ONLY; it does not protect against mis-shift mistakes when downshifting! The price of over-revving the engine when downshifting is very expensive -- about $8,000 for a new engine. Consider yourself lucky.
Reply
Related Topics
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
Jamie_Murray
S2000 Under The Hood
26
Mar 8, 2010 04:39 PM
alcxm5
S2000 Under The Hood
30
Aug 12, 2009 11:12 PM
bobatimez
S2000 Talk
11
Jun 29, 2004 06:04 AM
patrick93
S2000 Under The Hood
1
Oct 12, 2003 06:07 PM
zero_to60
UK & Ireland S2000 Community
37
Jul 31, 2003 04:59 PM




All times are GMT -8. The time now is 12:55 PM.