Redlining your car.

[15wile]

I wind up redlining it all the time, if I'm not paying attention when launching. But the stock limiter is very conservative. Unless you drive at or near redline constantly, you're unlikely to cause any problems. Even then... this is a muscle car. It was made to be beat up a bit on the track.

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[16 GT MM/Auto]

From what I remember with the auto 3.15Around 40ish in first, 75ish in 2nd, 100ish in 3rd, 150 in 4th
Never took it to redline in 5th...

Ok, thanks.

I guess I can figure it out more exactly using this Gear Ratio Speed Calculator, the only thing I need to know is what rpm the auto trans shifts at.

6500 rpm? 6800 rpm?

http://www.apexgarage.com/tech/gear_ratios.shtml

 

[16 GT MM/Auto]

I just got back from a drive, the trans shifts from 1st to 2nd at 6500 rpm, and from 2nd to 3rd at 6800 rpm.

Assuming that only the 1/2 gear change is at 6500 rpm, and every other one occurs at 6800 rpm, this is what it looks like:

 

[Hack]

Just out of curiosity, how many times do you guys redline your car everyday? Since i live in the middle of nowhere, I often go WOT (from 1-2 gears) about 3-4 times a day. I have an auto (3.55). Any negative effects by doing this everyday on the stock tune? (Assuming that I'm on top of my maintenance game)

I may have hit red line once a year at most. I work hard to avoid bouncing off the limiter. I'm sure the engine can handle it fine, but I generally can't think of a reason why I would want to purposely hit the limiter. I think it makes me seem like a poor driver if someone hears me do it. Kind of like missing a shift. Embarrassing.

 

[2morrow]

I was toying around with the line lock feature and that thing lives at redline. Kinda surprised me.

 

[Burkcs]

I would be careful redlining your car. I had an 2001 Bullitt that had an awesome exhaust setup. I loved hearing it bounce off the rev limiter. Long story short I ended up spinning a rod bearing. It can be debated as to the cause but nevertheless I was out one engine.

My opinion, this is a danger zone and if you play in it long enough it will eventually bite you.

 

[stoli]

I was toying around with the line lock feature and that thing lives at redline. Kinda surprised me.

You're not supposed to just keep it floored....

 

[wireeater]

You're not supposed to just keep it floored....

What?! It doesn't control throttle and shift gears for you? What a STUPID feature!

 

[Coolmanfoo]

My mindset wasn't about the shenanigans, just that somebody posted to ask " how many times do you redline a day".

I'd find it more interesting to know how many times do people fart a day in their Mustang.

I for one fart in my mustang every chance I get. I absolutely love the smell of my farts. So much so in fact I bought some device that connects directly to my ass and pumps the fart smell through the cars ventilation system. Best mod I've done to date

 

[15wile]

I for one fart in my mustang every chance I get. I absolutely love the smell of my farts. So much so in fact I bought some device that connects directly to my ass and pumps the fart smell through the cars ventilation system. Best mod I've done to date

I will refer you to a post I made some time ago in the "what have you done to your mustang today" thread, and which I have pasted in full below:

Farted in it. I blame the leftover chicken burrito I ate this morning. My wife said "hey, I left some leftovers from last night in there for you" like she was doing me some kind of favor. Yeah, right. The thing was a seed for a nuclear ass-pocalypse, it was a portal to the universe of ass.

It was so bad I had to roll down the windows in order to breath in anything but great, heaving gasps, like I was just gulping the air... but then that just blew the fart smell back in my face at high speed. Florida, of course, being humid and hot, it smelled like hot, baked, wet ass, and now it was flying into my face at 75 miles per hour. Then the fart revealed that it brought friends. It was like a machine-gun loaded with Zyklon B.

So I blasted the A/C, with the windows still down, which finally exorcised the ass demons from my beloved GT to somewhere in the back seat. But the stench still lingered, such that as I pulled off the freeway, it began to creep forward again, a zombie-burrito fart, resurrected from the dead to haunt me for my entire commute.

I wonder what other folks at the stoplight thought, seeing me gulping air like a fish out of water.

I dread going back into the car when I get off work later. I wonder how badly the Florida sun has baked this hell-stench into the interior of my car.

 

[EasyBeingGreen]

I will refer you to a post I made some time ago in the "what have you done to your mustang today" thread, and which I have pasted in full below:

Farted in it. I blame the leftover chicken burrito I ate this morning. My wife said "hey, I left some leftovers from last night in there for you" like she was doing me some kind of favor. Yeah, right. The thing was a seed for a nuclear ass-pocalypse, it was a portal to the universe of ass.

It was so bad I had to roll down the windows in order to breath in anything but great, heaving gasps, like I was just gulping the air... but then that just blew the fart smell back in my face at high speed. Florida, of course, being humid and hot, it smelled like hot, baked, wet ass, and now it was flying into my face at 75 miles per hour. Then the fart revealed that it brought friends. It was like a machine-gun loaded with Zyklon B.

So I blasted the A/C, with the windows still down, which finally exorcised the ass demons from my beloved GT to somewhere in the back seat. But the stench still lingered, such that as I pulled off the freeway, it began to creep forward again, a zombie-burrito fart, resurrected from the dead to haunt me for my entire commute.

I wonder what other folks at the stoplight thought, seeing me gulping air like a fish out of water.

I dread going back into the car when I get off work later. I wonder how badly the Florida sun has baked this hell-stench into the interior of my car.

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[GoBlues38]

I see the tach turn red (GT Premium) maybe 1x evert 2 weeks. I drive it hard, but usually shift at 6,000 rpm.

 

[proj_vulpix]

....drive it like you stole it

 

[stoli]

What?! It doesn't control throttle and shift gears for you? What a STUPID feature!

Indeed it is.

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