okay, you always hear people talk about how bad it is for a car to drive it to or through its redline, but ever since I started driving mine hard, (f22a1, shifting at about 7100 rpm), thats not quite to the revlimit but it's a high rev for that motor, is that really hurting my car?

I mean, from personal experience it seems to be fine, but is it true that redlining hondas really doesn't hurt them at all, as long as you don't run it bouncing it off the revlimiter when you should already be 2 gears ahead?

Just curious, I wanna know cause I hear so many of my friends wondering about it...

thanks

 

Redlining like you described is obviously going to make more stress on your internals, but if you let the motor warm up, and do frequent maintenance, it will still outlast most domestic cars that are not driven hard.

Thats what I do, and I am running strong 180k on my H22. But I never hit the rev limiter (it is beyond peak anyway, and I can stay in VTEC between shifts without going in the red).

You do have a longer stroke though... But it IS a HONDA.

 

I'm high jacking this thread. Could you set your rev limiter to right at red line? It would be nice to not have to worry about miss shifts or your friends over reving. Not that I ever or have ever missed a shift, haha.

 

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Miss-shifts are mechanical. A rev limiter can't stop it.


Anyways redlining is not bad for short periods of time but legging it out on 4th and 5th all the time is bad.

 

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It's called a redline for a reason, and the color red is to signify something.

Let's just say I would NEVER buy a car off of someone who redlines their car frequently.

 

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as long as you do that, there isn't really a big problem... stress on the motor increases exponentially as revs increase, but unless you're doing a track day chances are the motor is just in the high rpm's for seconds at a time for the most part.

doing it on a cold motor or one that is short on oil (or other mechanical problems ie running lean or something like that) you could be causing damage though. be smart about it and you're really not hurting it much.

 

"its a vtec, there designed to run at red line all day"..........so famous racer, forgot who!

 

the more you redline , the quiker your engine will go. simple as that