Engine Threshold

[phil2478]

Does anyone know at what point past redline you either do some damage or if there is a fuel cutoff that kicks in? Last night i was driving the ep a little hard and my foot slipped, slammed the gas right before a shift and the engine ran up to about 7,200 or 7,300 RPM.

[02SilverSiHB]

Originally posted by phil2478
Does anyone know at what point past redline you either do some damage or if there is a fuel cutoff that kicks in? Last night i was driving the ep a little hard and my foot slipped, slammed the gas right before a shift and the engine ran up to about 7,200 or 7,300 RPM.
doubt it hurt anything, the tach is off any. hopefully it was only like 6800. I shift at about 7200 or 7300 on my tach before fuel cut off.

[phil2478]

I didnt't thank that it hurt anything. I just wanted to know if it could run higher than what they set it at.

[crex2nr]

to be honest, i dont know what kind of damage can be done, i do know that when my mechanic checked my computer, he told me that it registered at 8300. i told him that it couldnt be, he was going to show me later be he reset it.

[phil2478]

Wow 8300....that's going up there

[02situner]

i didnt think it would hurt much taking it all the way to the cutoff. i have hit the cut off a couple times. the car just realy wants to rev up there and there is no loss of power doing it eather. oops

[Brettnyt]

Yeah man, dont worry about it... Thats what the cutoff is there for... So u dont do damage... I take it up to 7100 before i shift lots of the time... My car runs fine...

[eurosteez]

I think cuz our motor has two bigger brothers(a2,a) that rev 8000+ , the a3 can handle feul cutoff shifts easily.

[civic si hb]

plus if you add hondata you can rev to almost 8k without any damage. i've never heard of hondata doing any damage to the ep3 yet, anybody else?

[BlasTech]

In the hondata'd ep I drove, it seemed like the EP was quite at home over 7K, even sounds natural.