TRT SR

Was hitting the gas hard in first gear and lost traction and hit the rev limiter, shifted to second and it took off again, pretty funny sound though, sounded like the car was farting! lol....Anyway pretty cool system and it surely saved my motor from broken parts. Way to go GM

Raazor

not so cool in a race

Mark VerMurlen

Yep, the motor stutters at the rev limiter. It is a good safety system to have in place. Just remember that it won't save you if you mechanically over rev the motor by shifting into too low of a gear for your speed.

- Mark

Torchsport

Been there...
Felt guilty.

jschindler

Several years ago I was with some friends at the drag strip. Most of them (and me) were not very experienced on the track. One guy kept hitting his rev limiter. He had a sense of humor about it though. He started referring to is as his "shift indicator".

Raazor

Wayne O

"Hit the rev limiter!"

You scoundrel!

Actually, it's a good thing....now you know.

TRT SR

My 21 year old son was with me, both windows were down, sounded cool at wot. I told him, do as I say not as I do! Fat chance of that happening....Pretty cool kid, he likes American products and understands trying to support our country!

jschindler

You live in "buy American" land. I have a sister in Bay City (we lived in Midland when I was in high school - over 40 years ago!)

FloydSummerOf68

It's VERY easy to hit the rev limiter in these cars in first gear if you don't have good tires due to the loss of traction from 20mph punches or things similar

Torchsport

Exactly what I did.

goatts

I've hit it quite a few times especially at the autox winding out in second trying to avoid shifting to 3rd. Also a few times at the dragstrip.

b0xm0ns73r

Me too.....Major Facepalm

Just once though and I blame it on the paddles. At the time I didn't realize it would take it so long to shift. Now I know and per G.I. Joe that is half the battle.......

And it never fails. Things like like never happen when you are alone or out in the boonies. There is always someone around or in the passengers seat .......

b0xm0ns73r

That sounds like the old saying about the perfect torque "Strip it and back off a quarter of a turn...."

orca1946

For 99% of us - it's a good thing to protect the engine !

Radioman

Yep, using launch control as soon as you pop the clutch you must shift to 2nd or you will bump the rev limiter....too much practice for me and not enough tread....but that is the subject of many other threads on this forum..

Racer

My race cars used to have two steps in them, you would sit at the tree at 6000 RPM for what seemed like eternity as the car went DAT DAT DAT DAT DAT DAT DAT DAT until you let go of the trans brake button then it was BOOM, front wheels 3 feet up in the air and hope you come down straight!!

Gearhead Jim

Ain't that the truth!

keyplyr

Had it tuned out.

B-Vette

I've smoked the bowla with the Ayatollah, (rev limiter) a few times on my C5 FRC. Still waiting on the C6 though.....