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RE: rev limiter?

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Subject: RE: rev limiter?
From: "Larry Joffe" <spdrcr5@bigfoot.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 21:41:28 -0500
I don't see why you can't add a rev limiter into a stock car.  Just about
every car sold today with a computer controlled ignition or computer
controlled fuel injection system comes with a rev limiter!  I guess nobody
thought of that! :)

As far as a shift light being a gauge or even legal in stock?  How many
times are you really shifting on an auto-x course where it will even matter?
You are trying to say that you can't hear what your engine is doing?  The
shift light is a gauge if that is what you are looking for.  They are a just
like the oil warning light in the dash.  The battery light in the dash.
This one just happens to light up at a particular engine rpm.  The oil light
lights up at a particular oil pressure or temperature depending on the car.
Same thing in my mind.

It is not a performance enhancement.  If you were in my class I would not
protest you, it would be a stupid protest!

Larry Joffe
SM #27/127
2000 Audi TT Quattro

spdrcr5@bigfoot.com
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--> -----Original Message-----
--> From: owner-autox@autox.team.net
--> [mailto:owner-autox@autox.team.net]On
--> Behalf Of Jason Isley
--> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 8:38 PM
--> To: JonesMB@arthem.com; autox@autox.team.net
--> Subject: RE: rev limiter?
-->
-->
-->      Perhaps everyone missed the point on this one. I was
--> just checking to see
--> if this is a legal "safety device" in stock. Ever since I
--> installed my 7lb
--> clutch/flywheel assembly from Tilton I seem to way overrun
--> the motor and float
--> the valves when I miss a shift. ;> I was just trying to
--> save the money on the
--> titanium retainers and big springs. ;>
-->
--> Jason "RX7 KLR" Isley
--> jason.isley@alltel.com
-->
-->
--> -----Original Message-----
--> From: JonesMB@arthem.com at INTERNET
--> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 8:23 PM
--> To: Isley, Jason C.; autox@autox.team.net at INTERNET
--> Subject: RE: rev limiter?
-->
-->
--> > >Because a tach doesn't really  tell you any useful
--> information for day to
--> > >day driving.
--> >
--> >Speak for yourself, CHuck!  I see redline at least once
--> during my daily
--> >commute -- and that's just to get into traffic!  :)
--> >
--> >Jamie
--> >'92 Prelude Si
--> >Speed Demon Racing
--> >http://www.mindspring.com/~jsculerati/sdr
-->
--> I was thinking the same thing.
-->
--> Without a tach I would probably have blown the engine by
--> now.  I also see
--> redline at least once a day.  A rev to redline in first & second is
--> necessary for safely merging into fast moving traffic when
--> taking off from
--> a toll booth, especially in a car with no torque.  Could
--> that make the tach
--> a safety item :-)
-->
--> jmb
-->

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