jasony0630

my car has a b16a3 running on a stock p30 and i missed 4th today and it revved past 9k, it was about 9500 rpm and it didnt rev limit....is this normal?

994door

No missing a gear isn't normal. j/k. No it's not normal. Maybe it's chipped. Is a p30 OBD1 or OBD2? Cause if it's OBD1 it could be chipped.

jasony0630

no its not chipped, ive opened it up....so idk wtf is wrong...maybe thats just saying i should miss gears lol

afstvx

did you miss 4th or go back to 2nd. if you went back to second the car will rev past rev limiter as long as the car is not accelerating it will rev past the limiter. like if you go from 5th to second and just let the clucth out it will rev hella high. a lot of people would do the this when the rsx's first came out they would miss 4th to 5th becasue the transmissions are so close. but if you just didnt get the car into 4th ( or any other gear ) and it just reved it should have hit the rev limitter.

.PLUMMM

Is it still running fine? No stock b16 should rev. to 9500 rpm. If everything feels fine, then you are lucky. I wouldn't recomend doing that again. Next time your valves might not be as forgiving lol

Hardedge

Are you saying you miss-shifted into a lower gear? There's nothing the ECU can do about that, it's called a mechanical over-rev. You're using the gearing and the forward speed of the vehicle to rev the engine.

jasony0630

oh...then thats probably what i did, i think i did miss fourth and put it in second...it scared the **** outta me

but thank god the b16 is still fine..i love that engine

poorhonda

how bad is it to be shifting my gsr all the time 8100 rpms

Hardedge

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It's just accelerated wear, that's all. Unless you miss-shift. As discussed in this thread, miss-shifting at redline is bad because you can rev the engine well beyond it's design limit.

poorhonda

what about when i chip it isnt it going to red line alot higher how bad is that goin to be on her

bigD

just because you chip your ecu does not mean you can rev it higher than stock. Your gona need to upgrade your valve train and cams if you want to make power that high