My friend was driving my car around and he went up to 7400 rpms. My car (d16y8) redlines at 7k. I listened and didnt hear anything mechanical coming from the engine.

Have any of you revved that far past redline and if so, what happened?

Also some of you may suggest getting a compression check done? Can I just rent something from Autozone to do that myself.

Thanks for the help,
-azn

 

it will be allright, just dont let that *** drive your car again. Do u have stock rev limiter on it?

 

step one, smack your friend for being a dumbass.

second, how does your car rev to 7400? isnt the rev limit 7200(if not right at 7000)? ive bounced off my rev limited a small handful of times since i've had my car... and its still going strong. if its not continuous abuse, or prolonged, i would think its ok.

i know other people will have more technical and/or in-depth analysis.

 

yeah no technical advice here, and to get compression checked you have to bring it to a shop, and its a pretty penny. The rev limiter on mine d16y8 is about 7400-7500 and ive bounded it many a times, and still going strong.....you just cant kill a honda motor

 

stock tachs are off about 200-400 rpm. it's more off the higher you get. ie: stock tach says 4500, really, you might be 4300. stock tach says 7400, you might be at 7000.

 

You don't have to take it to a shop to get the comp. checked. You need a gauge that you may be able to rent or borrow from autozone or the like. There are assloads of topics on doing a compression check. Search in the archives if it doesn't come up in recent topics.

 

You will be fine. But just tell your friend that he blew your motor and that he has to by you a b16 now.

 

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Thats what my friend did

 

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sounds good to me

 

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Ever seen that movie where they take a junk 1.5 and take the header off, shoot bananas out the head of it. Proceed to do brakestands till they run out of oil, then pour WATER into the engine and continue to beat the **** out of it. After holding the car at rev-limiter for a good 5 minutes, it finally throws a ******* rod. But then it starts right back up and they drive it away.

 

right before me any my friend did my motor swap in my accord we tried blow up my old moter and we were hitting the rev limiter for like 2 mins at a time and that dam thing wouldnt blow up i was driving in 1st gear redlining the hell out of it and it didnt blow up and the accord had 200 plus miles on it so im sure ull be fine

 

take this as a lesson. Never let your friends drive your car. good luck.

 

I mis-shifted my y7 and it went to 7300 one time. Still pullin strong.

 

Some dipshit mis-shifted my K20 to 11 grand. still running strong.

stock rev limiters are in place for a reason.

 

Wow @ the K20. I would be kicking some ***.

 

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seriously lol...

 

anyone have that vid? id really like ta dl it

 

Those heads have *****. The only reason they have rev limiters is to give the other car manufacturers a chance.

 

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Ever seen that movie where they take a junk 1.5 and take the header off, shoot bananas out the head of it. Proceed to do brakestands till they run out of oil, then pour WATER into the engine and continue to beat the **** out of it. After holding the car at rev-limiter for a good 5 minutes, it finally throws a ******* rod. But then it starts right back up and they drive it away.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Damn, where can you find this movie?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by userdead626 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">you just cant kill a honda motor </TD></TR></TABLE> when i see these people around here buying all these parts to fix up there car i just shake my head. would you like to know why? they have all these parts on the car but NEVER race, NEVER even get on the gas at all because they think its going to damage something. whats the point of doing anything to your car than. i realize its on public streets, but you just gotta put your foot down sometimes. with both of the hondas ive owned, every single time i drive it i ALWAYS take it to the limiter. first car, 00 civic si when i no longer had it, it was at 55000 miles and running better than ever. second car, 99 civic dx i beat the **** out of this car, even worse than my si. it now has 80000 miles and shows no signs of stopping anytime soon.

cliffnotes:

 

Bouncing off the rev limiter is my favorite sound, especially when I am running open downpipe. I do it everytime I drive my car and I use the rev limiter for launch control at the track.

 

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It's the truth..

I'd like to see that video

 

honda tachometers tend to read about 200 rpms more than what it acutally is. my y8 is supposed to redline at 7000 on the dot, but it doesn't hit the fuel cut until about 7250.

i downshifted to second once going a little too fast and it spun up to about 8000 or so and it's fine.

 

ive never really gotten it up to the rev limiter on my y8 but i shift it as soon as it hits about 7150-7200...so i really dont know much about how high it'll go before the limiter kicks in

 

yeah very nice noise, its nice to know that your motot isnt gonna blow, and yeah man i hate those people that spend all that money on their car and never really drive it, i mean you gotta try to be safe and all, but whats the point? wheres the fun? my honda may be slower than many cars, but im sure i have a **** load more fun in it than most people do in there turbo........