paradoxblue

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seem smost stock vics run to 120mmph or about 180kmh and then top out.

does anyone know if this is an electrical thing or if the engine is actually locked at 120?

is there a bypass or something?

oh and BTW
them bloody gain +35hp mids that they sell on ebay (i know its a frigin resistor) do they do squat if you do your own mod? or jsut burn richer

Excal

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Its a cut off in the ECU nothing you can do but get a engine managment system.

The stupid thing on ebay doesnt do crap. Many people have bought it and it does nothing. There is nothing out that we can stick on our cars to gain any HP but a few other than n2o or Turbo. The basic I/H/E only gives you at the most 15HP if that.

Mystic3030

Yup there is a bypass...buy a fast car that is supposed to go that fast, not an ULEV econobox and it wont be restricted.

J187

I bought a reprogrammed PCM for my Grand Prix and that eliminated the Governer. I'm not sure that such a thing exists for a Civic though.

Excal

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I dont think they have those for our cars yet. I could be wrong tho.

alberta_si

i went to 199 with mine then got scared and braked.. i was comming back from regina and had a really long and staight road.. takes a while.... are you a trainee pilot??? moosejaw so??

Excal

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If you have a SI or a K20 swap with ECU you can get the hondata Reflash but they dont make one for a D17 motors.

http://www.hondata.com/wizard/wiz_civic_01.html

Bmkarr

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there might be a way but i have to do some more research. it basically would be a switch that would kill the speed sensor causing the ecu to not know how fast your going, but neither would you because your speedo wouldnt work. ive been talking to a guy with honda about it he's supposed to show me which clip the speed sensor is today ill post about it again later

sorry for the long post

Excal

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Well unless you get an aftermarket speedo that has its own sensor...but that would be dumb cause you already have one.

J187

or use GPS that finds your speed with 4 satellites . . LOL

Excal

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^hahaha

Bmkarr

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well, the guy that was supposed to show me the sensor wasnt there, he'll be in tomorrow so ill tty tomorrow

Excal

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I thought about your post on the way home from work...and im not sure about it...but i think if you do what u was thinking it might throw a CEL everytime you flip the switch.

since the speedo sensor goes to the ECU and if u get it to cut it off when u hit the switch that would report to the ECU that it isnt getting a signal so its gonna show a error which would put up a CEL. Which then to get the light to go away u gonna have to reset the ecu everytime.

Its just a thought i might be wrong but it seems pretty logical.

Bmkarr

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it might throw it, its never been done before. But when my friend and i did the same concept on his s-10 the only light that came on was abs and the abs didnt kick in or anything. only thing that happened was after he fliped the switchm the speedo drops to 0 the abs light came on and then went off about 5 min. later and 15min later my friend's s-10 that is gov. @ 95 was doing 115.

Bmkarr

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http://www.sshotrods.com/s10/new4.3/speed/ heres the link on everything that we did it will be the same thing just a diff car... if there is a speed sensor clip that i can unplug

Excal

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I understand its never been done and i applaud you for trying something. I was just saying that as something that might happen. And you can compare a chevy to a honda. they are build different (i had one before my vic). But that is coo that it worked on your friends s-10.

How do u know how fast the truck was going if you had no speedo

Bmkarr

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i was next to him in my 02 honda ex

dre2600

Its not a speed limiter, its a rev limiter. You can go as fast as you damn well please, but you can't rev over a certain rpm and frankly, the car just reaches are threshold of drag once it gets up to a given speed.

I found that my automatic Civic stopped going any faster around 185km/h or so here in Edmonton, but when I was in Death Valley driving to California, with a tail wind, at sea level, the car made it up to 220km/h.

Bmkarr

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supposedly everything under the ex has both rev and gov. i wouldnt know i have a ex, im just trying to help the other guys. what model was your car?

paradoxblue

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hmm.. no im not a pilot. jsut a student.

yeah i figured as such.e verything told me it cant be reporgramend.
aside fomr the fact of buying a small speedo that i could attch to bypass it. i wouldnt know how fast i was going haha. hmmm..

keep us psoted
rev limiter would make sense..

Bmkarr

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i would be bypassing the gov not the rev. and a aftermarket speedo wouldnt make a diff. you wouldnt be able to see how fast your going cuz the comp wouldnt be able to tell either

04civicvp

When I had my Jetta with the stock ECU chip in it, I was able to just disconnect the speed sensor on the tranny to bypass the governor. Sure I had no speedo, but I was so used to the car I knew how fast I was going by gear and rpm.

gtracing

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that's weird..i took my car to 200km/h..in 5th and my rpm was topped out at 7000rpm...so i don't think it is even possible, for my car at least, go to any faster...

WhiteRabbit

try bigger tires.