You can run up over the redline, but the engine makes no more power
after it. The redline is when the RPM's don't go up no more and the
engine can't wind any faster.. that's when valves start to float and things
start to break. Usually, the engine's Power Peak is several hundred
RPM's before the redline so you don't have to hang out too close to it..
then God created the Rev limiter, to keep people like us from hangin' out
WAY too close =)
-mike d.
>>> Robert Trottmann <rotrottmann@davidson.edu> 02/20/99 02:08pm
>>>
So what exactly IS a redline? Does it hurt the engine to take it over
redline?
If not, who cares what it is?
Just wonderin. Doesn't really matter to me 'cause I've got an auto. :-)(
(love it/hate it)
-Hood Killa
Vladimir Ryall wrote:
> Trucks are not just for hauling junk around town and muddin' anymore.
> Hello, it's 1999 ace.
>
> Vladimir "FASRAM"
> Home: http://home.austin.rr.com/fasram/
> Member: http://www.indyram.org/
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dakota-truck@buffnet4.buffnet.net
> [mailto:owner-dakota-truck@buffnet4.buffnet.net]On Behalf Of Mike
> Crumley
> Sent: Friday, February 19, 1999 1:00 PM
> To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> Subject: RE: DML: Rev limiters...
>
> At 10:05 PM 2/18/99 , you wrote:
>
> >
> > It's strange though...The Dak's, from what i've heard, are "Roller
> Motors".
> > What's up with the 5200rpm Redline?? My old Camaro with the Roller
Cam,
> > Lifters, and Rockers had a redline of 7200rpm (and 408 Cubic
Inches...not
> > 239). Guess Dodge just doesn't build them like they should. (That's
why
> we
> > have the DML.)
>
> Congratulations!! You've just discovered the difference between a
truck
> engine
> (made to produce low end torque and power for doing things a truck
does) and
> a
> hi performance car engine made for a sporty car.
>
> Mike Crumley 97 V6 Auto
> mail to: mcrumley@airmail.net
>
> For others who may not know this:
> When the preacher says, "You may now kiss
> the bride," he's only speaking to the groom.
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