Over-Revved, Am I gonna be ok ?????

tonybui

I was going 70mph and were going into 4th but mis-shifted and went in to 2nd

It made horrible sound, I Immediately clutch in and get out of 2nd. Next morning I was paranoid and "felt" like the car was losing power but idk if its in my head or what .... Is the car gonna be ok ??

Viera

You should be alright, just try not to do that again. Ever...

GZ3

lol! but true.....

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memorylasts

Drive something else for a couple days let your butt dyno feel something of less power and then hop back in the z and tell us how it feels, all I can say is it will be a lot of fun all over...

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Red__Zed

OP, most likely nothing bad happened, but it's hard to say through the internet. It isn't difficult to damage things by overrevving the motor. I can't tell you how many people I know that have destroyed a motor with just an overrev or two.

Dreezy562

This is why synchro revmatch is stupid. I knew that would blow an engine sooner or later

Red__Zed

SR would actually save most people, since you'd catch it before you actually put it in gear/released the clutch. Throttle overrev isn't a problem, mechanical overrev is.

chops

actually...synchro-rev would save you in this situation. i know its saved me...i accidentally pulled the stick too far left as i was downshifting and the synchro-rev revved to redline and bounced off the limiter. once i realized it bounced off the limiter i let off the gas and pushed it into the correct gear.

in this case, i never mis-shifted per say, but since the computer automatically over-revved for me, i realized my mistake before it was too late.

Nismoracer

I thought our cars had rev limiters on them...

chops

all modern cars have rev limiters, however a rev limiter wont save you from a mis-shift. the limiter will only stop the engine from revving too high during acceleration...but if you downshift from say 5-2 at 60-70mph...you will likely land over the redline due to how gearing works..

Vaughanabe13

Yes! I did the same thing. The shift gates are fairly narrow as we know, so it's pretty easy to go into 2nd instead of 4th if you're not careful. But when I got the shifter over to 2nd the SRM kicked in and revved up the engine about to the red line. I caught my mistake before letting out the clutch and no harm was done!

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shadoquad

I don't see SRM as a contributing factor, nor as a saving grace. If SRM blipped too loudly, you'd have about an instant in some cases before just throwing her into gear and releasing the clutch pedal.

Either way, this is scary. I've done it before. I've been driving manual cars for a long time now. I don't know if you've done engine or clutch damage. I think only time will tell.

MacCool

Was it SRM, or your bad shifting that destroyed your motor? In case it's not damaged, that is.

BGTV8

Syncro-rev WILL NOT over rev the engine, it will only rev to redline

Dreezy562

Most people would catch it before putting it in gear, just like most people leave vdc on...