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hey guys this has prolly been asked a million times but there has never been a straight answer possted, and being an old *** member i remember seeing alot of these threads but not sure where to start looking for the right answer so dont flame..

This morning, it was like 23F outside, and while I was driving to school, I hit the rev limiter in 3rd gear trying to pass a IS300 that was also accelerating hard, getting on the freeway. So after i hit the limiter, my car STALLED!, which ment no power steering or anything... Why did my car stall after hitting the rev limiter?

 
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Bouncing off the rev-limiter isnt really all that big of a deal.... The amount of time I've spent bouncing off mine is in the minutes.

Why a car would stall while doing it...... Not sure, did you press in the clutch when you started to hit it?

 
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it shouldnt have stalled, unless your car has a SUPER safety feature that wants to keep the car alive for a while

 
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yea it freaking stalled, i pushed the clutch in and freaking popped it into neutral... Also I noticed this morning, that it took a while to get the car started, like 2 trys.. Ive bounced off of it before but the car has never stalled on me right afterwards...

 
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The only thing I can think of is if you depressed the clutch at the exact moment that the ECU cut fuel, then there would be nothing stoping the engine from stalling. (even with 0 fuel going to the engine, if the transmission is still engaged, it will force the engine to keep turing.)

 
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Yeah I was gonna say that sounds like fuel cut.

 
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haha kinda whack i guess, im going to take it into honda a couple days from now to get my brakes done, i guess ill ask them whats up... As always thanks for the info guys...

 
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i dont have an answer for you but when i worked for enterprise rent-a-car we had a new shipment of lancers and i took 1 that had 23 mile on it and bounced it off the rev limiter for like 10 min. the next day my manager was moving it and black smoke was pouring out of it i and the guy that was with me when i was doing it was like wasnt that the car from last night and i was like yeah while trying to keep from falling over from laghing

 
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you didn't damage anything. hitting the rev limiter isn't necessarily bad (assuming you aren't doing it over and over and beating on the engine like rental-car-boy). honestly, the worst strain put onto your engine is on the rods. when you hit the rev limiter, the amount of stress the rods go through is quite a bit. this is due to sudden loss of load and piston deceleration.

however, the D17 has forged rods, so you'll be fine 99% of the time.



Edit: I also just realized this thread was an old *** thread revived. ah well.