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Jakey
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Was driving before.. Overtaking a car in 3rd, went for 4th, hit 2nd

I saw the rev counter bounce all the way round off the clock, and my mate behind saw a puff of smoke come outta the exhaust.

Apart from knackering the baffles which are already buggered.

Any other possible damage?
Seems to drive the same as before still.
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I think i read before that if you were lucky and it wasnt in gear long there might not be any/much damage

on the other hand i think i read it can do quite substantial damage to erm, some engine bit valves maybe

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The above post was totally useless so do a search

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Jakey
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Nah it wasn't in long, less than a second i think.
Like i said, it seems fine, just need a new exhaust, but i've needed one for a while
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Fair enough

BTW posted "THE HAT" before
Haimsey
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But the car will be gone soon

Sweet

[Edited on 08-01-2008 by Haimsey]

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Jakey
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Mike GSi
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your lucky i managed to kill a 1.2 Nova by doing this, i snapped 2 rockers
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Dont worry, I did this in a Focus Zetec, made a fuss about it, got an EML and its done over 50,000 more trouble free since.
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if youd done damage youd know about it
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Sums it up well Steve.
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ive done this quite a few times... well not overtaking a car though, just as i was driving along, but i had about the correct revs for it to be just about okay lol
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oops!!!!
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done this in my old car and the engine cut out on me, started up fine again ecu must have shut down power
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Mate of mine somehow managed to go from limiter in second back into first in a toyota anvensis a few years back
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quote:
Originally posted by Jakey
Was driving before.. Overtaking a car in 3rd, went for 4th, hit 2nd

I saw the rev counter bounce all the way round off the clock, and my mate behind saw a puff of smoke come outta the exhaust.



Baffles would be the last worry, but it wouldnt' do anything to the exhaust anyway.

You would just find that it would knock badly, you take the head off, and probably find all 16 valve inbedded int he top of the pistons.

If your mate was lucky, he would have been covered in oil and engine parts as it exploded beneth the car.

So i'd say your ok, just lucky...
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If it runs, dont panic.
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You can normally drive about a mile at the rev limit before you get valve float and get piston contact. Depends on the engine obviously
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Was gonna say, my diddy 1.4 sat for more than a mile in its short 30,000 mile life before the head gasket went

ALthough never any internal damage. I used to like my limiter, it sounded good with the induction kit.

Proper boy-racer-y'all.
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they test engines on test beds for hours sometimes days sat at the rev limiter

usually they are fine at the end
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did this in 1.25 fiesta at about 70, it chucked out the biggest cloud of shit behind me lol
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I :love: my 4800RPM rev limiter
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And chucking out a big cloud of shit every time to press the accelerator hard pow?
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No smoke, no poke
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an old volvo we had sat on the limiter in nuetral fro a good 10 minutes before it went bang and bits went everywhere

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