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Anyone else's Rev Limiter not kicking in...I can drive beyond my Redline...and not just by a bit...anyone know what's up?

What's a bit. I would not be surprised if you tach was off by 500 rpms. WHich means you could go up to 9000 rpms before you see fuel cut on your tach.

Got a VAFC?

It could be just a tach that is off. Can you rev till forever?

I haven't tried revving it "forever."

More or less, I was just wondering if anyone else has been able to go above and beyond the 8400 Redline, and by how much?

I have always wondered if my limiter is working to. When I run at the track my tach easily goes 8800. I'm tempted to see how far it goes, I have a full ignition setup and my idle is perfect. The ignition box I have doesn't have a rev limiter, I wonder if it canceled the factory 8600 limit.
I'm going to check in the spring when I dyno the car to see how accurate the tach is. I'm also thinking of grabbing a Proform Shiftlite, does anyone know if there any good? or just stick with the MSD?, Accuracy is a priority!

well, i'm glad i'm not the only one!

'98 also?

My indicated redline is 8000 (Civic Si) and fuel cut is at 8200. The stock tach is off by quite a bit, so I actually shift at an indicated 8500.

My 98' bounces @ 9,200RPM.

Opie loves bwadadaing all day long on his day's off!

bwadadaing lol, my stock tach is showing me around 9400 before i bounce, i've been thinking about getting both RPM tach and SPEEDOMETER tach in digital form

JUN wrote:bwadadaing lol, my stock tach is showing me around 9400 before i bounce, i've been thinking about getting both RPM tach and SPEEDOMETER tach in digital form

stack dash!

huh?

yeah your tach is probably off. my redline is 9.1k but the tach shows 9.3k

jun ecu

stack, makers of fine digital instrumentation

http://www.stackltd.com/streetdash1.html

NICE! that stack looks like good shit! that 8000rpm bugs me though, i was thinking more along the lines of this

does anyone know who makes a speedometer that looks similar to the picture i posted above?

you have to check with your speedometer to verify if the tach is off. In second gear at like 8400-8500 rpm you should run between 60 and 62 mph... if not your tach isn't accurate.... on my 98 the rev limiter seems to be at 8600-8700 and 8000 at neutral ( probably because the vtec didn't kick in under 20 mph.... ( not sure about that )

I think it's pretty well decided that the ITR tach is off a little. I wouldn't be at all surprised if an OEM motor appeared to be revving to 8800.

My field unit has digital tach & it matched up exactly to both dynos I've used. Result is revving roughly to 9000 on stock tach before the rev limiter.

Consider this - by having the stock tach 'off' a bit showing you are at redline EARLY, Honda gives themselves a little more breathing room on the majority of owners who would stop reving rather than hitting the limiter. .02

JUN wrote:NICE! that stack looks like good shit! that 8000rpm bugs me though, i was thinking more along the lines of this

Stack "clusters" are some of the best made. And they have other tach options besides 8krpm. They are used in race cars that rev _far_ higher. In fact, they have a 22,000rpm meter at least. And a few 10k ones, plus a ~13kand a 17,500. Far more than you'd ever need.

yeah i do agree stack is good good stuff, but i'm looking for something alot smaller like

if anyone knows of a digital speedometer that looks similar to this, please let me know

anyone?

i can take my car to were the tach reads 9k...which is off by 200 rpms (VTEC kicks @ reading 6k) but anyways jm2c