5.0L Coyote Redline & Rev Limiter

[GT Pony]

So I'm looking at the tachometer and not quite sure if the redline is 6500 or 7000 RPM. In the attached photo, there is a red arc-line that starts at 6500, and the hash marks also start at 6500, but get more heavily hashed at 7000 RPM. Nothing said in the owner's manual about redline or rev-limiter.

Is the rev-limiter set to 7000 RPM on the 5.0L Coyote? Maybe the 6500 RPM point is there to give you a 500 RPM buffer zone before the rev-limiter kicks in?

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[ORANG50]

If I recall correctly from when the 5.0 came out for the 2011 model year, the redline is 7K. Max HP is achieved at 6.5K.

 

[GT Pony]

If I recall correctly from when the 5.0 came out for the 2011 model year, the redline is 7K. Max HP is achieved at 6.5K.

That's pretty much what I thought too. I'm just trying to figure out what the tachometer markings are really supposed to represent.

 

[Five Oh Brian]

Fuel shut off happens just past 7,000 rpm's, so you definitely want to shift by then. That is, of course, unless you tune the car to spin higher. My Coyote has spent a lot of it's time in the 7,000-7,500 rpm range.

 

[Sasuketr]

Fuel shut off is at 6750 rpm and the tachometer lights up red as soon as you enter 6500 rpm redline section! The car doesn't rev up to 7000 rpm in real life unless you have a tune to bypass the fuel shut off point!

 

[JimmyTwoTimes]

Fuel shut off happens just past 7,000 rpm's, so you definitely want to shift by then. That is, of course, unless you tune the car to spin higher. My Coyote has spent a lot of it's time in the 7,000-7,500 rpm range.

That doesn't seem like a recipe for a long engine life...

 

[krahooligan]

That doesn't seem like a recipe for a long engine life...

its not bad to rev the car to redline. ive had cars that I got to the redline on a daily or weekly basis. drove those to 100k miles with no problem.
now bouncing it off the rev limiter and constantly keeping it there for an extended period of time is really bad for the engine. your engine will kill itself if you do that.

 

[daytripper]

Fuel shut off is at 6750 rpm and the tachometer lights up red as soon as you enter 6500 rpm redline section! The car doesn't rev up to 7000 rpm in real life unless you have a tune to bypass the fuel shut off point!

I have an auto .355 in sport mode it shifts at 7000, no fuel shut off.

 

[sldghmr]

Fuel shut off is at 6750 rpm and the tachometer lights up red as soon as you enter 6500 rpm redline section! The car doesn't rev up to 7000 rpm in real life unless you have a tune to bypass the fuel shut off point!

Please remember this is only for premium models... base model tach does not light up. I've bounced off my rev limiter 3 times trying to get it to light up....

 

[hailstate94]

its not bad to rev the car to redline. ive had cars that I got to the redline on a daily or weekly basis. drove those to 100k miles with no problem.
now bouncing it off the rev limiter and constantly keeping it there for an extended period of time is really bad for the engine. your engine will kill itself if you do that.

100k isn't that many miles...

 

[Old 5 Oh]

Fuel shut off is at 6750 rpm and the tachometer lights up red as soon as you enter 6500 rpm redline section! The car doesn't rev up to 7000 rpm in real life unless you have a tune to bypass the fuel shut off point!

Funny, my tach goes red about 6500 but the AT shifts at 7000 every time.

 

[Old 5 Oh]

Please remember this is only for premium models... base model tach does not light up. I've bounced off my rev limiter 3 times trying to get it to light up....

Did not know that. I thought everybody had the Tokyo At Midnight tachs.

 

[GT Pony]

Funny, my tach goes red about 6500 but the AT shifts at 7000 every time.

I'm thinking the 6500 to 7000 RPM zone is kind of a "pre-warning" zone for the redline.

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