Hey all. Today I brought my uncle out to a mile straight away in the hopes of showing how fast this baby can peform. Well I started with a nice start reved all the way to 9k shifted into 2nd smoothly all the way to 9k and shifted into 3rd and disaster hit. It is hard to explain what happened but here is what it was like from my view. After you shift and let off the clutch (and press gas) fast the rpms hover around 7k(shifted at 9k) then go down to 6k THEN by that time the flywheel catches and from there you accelerate like usual. when I shifted at 9k on 3rd clutched it, shifted, gas down rpms hover around 7k then all of a sudden 10k?! and I hadn;t noticed it for a second until I realized the engine was making a noise that it couldn;t rev any faster and we wern;t accelerating...my guess is the flywheel's teeth never caught so it made the car seem as if it was in netural? The whole way driving home I was afraid to push it and constantly watched the check engine light...never turned on thankfully. My question is what the heck happened that the flywheel never caught causing me to severly redline it, and is my engine damaged in any way(seems to be working fine)

Now when I push it I never slam the gas as soon as I let off the clutch. I always wait for the rpms to die down before slamming it in hopes of never doing that again...

Regards,
Jonathan

 

You prolly let go of the clutch too soon, so the gear never went in fully and poped back into neutral. If that is the case then the rev limiter kicked in preventing you from over reving the engine. It might not be good for life of the engine, but i don't think you caused any major damange.

 

Yeah... you're probably OK. Now you know why the put rev-limiters on these guys. Thank goodness for that, right?

Assuming that you actually were in gear, that could've just been clutch slippage. That's not too good for the life expectancy of the clutch. However, I've never experienced (or heard of) that much slippage in 3rd. Otherwise, like Shadow said, maybe you just never actually got it all the way into gear.

As long as you didn't mis-shift and put it back into first, you're probably OK.

 

from your description....2 possibilities:

1) car wasn't all the way in gear when you let the clutch out and pushed on the gas, so you were in fact in neutral just boucing off the rev limiter

2) you mis-shifted back into 2 gear, in which case you're damn lucky you didn't blow your engine.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by 03_AP1