rev limiter advice

[sr-rompa]

how would you fit one of the above to a 1.4sr and would it be beniftal :confused:

[Stuart]

erm std engine.... no benefit unless you like to rag round all day long lol

[Mike]

erm std engine.... no benefit unless you like to rag round all day long lol

agreed. not even worth fitting to a standard engine. However, if you got a few ???'s on your engine (not just a manifold + system, proper tunning!) it could be a worth while investment :thumb:

[johnny27]

on a tuned engine, its a good saftey device. On my old t40 lump, it would rev very high, due to the tuning involved, but particularly with the 1.2 short stroke block and a very high compression head, i had a armtech limiter fitted with additonal launch control and full throttle shift.
When i said its a saftey device it was because, when changing from 1st to 2nd at 7000rpm and missed a gear the block would have easily busted on my std rods and rod bolts.
And its easy to miss a gear when driving hard, also i found in nova's when reving high (7000rpm and over) the gear change/shift seems more difficult at high rpm, its sorta gets hard to put in the rite position for gear, plus you are more consicous that you have to shift fast

[tom_beverley]

I've just added a Omex Clubman with Launch Control (bargain ?51 brand new on Ebay haha) to mine after dropping two valves on my old 1.4SR head. Now I've invested a few ??? and have a Blydenstein B+ head, T40 Dellortos, Kent Cam I don't really want to be repeating my 2nd to 1st (instead of 3rd) gear change and doing the same again and ruining this nice bit of kit.

If it stayed standard I wouldn't have bothered but its more for piece of mind 'just in case'! I've got mine set to 7500, very rarely go that high anyway but when I have it seems the right point to limit it.

[Adam]

when changing from 1st to 2nd at 7000rpm and missed a gear the block would have easily busted on my std rods and rod bolts.
Does the limiter work down the gears tho?

Standard injection engines have a limiter but if you put it in 1st at 80mph it would still go bang.

Edit-For some reason i read that as changing from 2nd to 1st at 7K rpm lol

[Stuart]

thats called buzzing. and there is no way a limiter can protect for that