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  • Side Effects of reaching speed limiter?!?

    What usually happens when the speed limiter is reached? Does the car shake, just cut off or what? Yesterday I was racing a 5.0 mustang(read in kill stories) and I think I reached my speed limiter. My car started shaking until I reduced speed till about 70mph. after that it was normal. I even took up to a 100mph again just to be sure and it felt ok. Has this happened to anyone?!?
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  • #2
    I've reached the speed limiter quite a few times :D . Nothing really happens. Your fuel is cut off, so you car kind of comes to a stop, not really cut off, but somehting like that. Didnt experience any shaking...
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    • #3
      It's like hitting your rev limiter.
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      • #4
        Maybee you should look elsewhere. I dont think that the shaking is your speed limiter. You cant even really feal the speed limiter, you just stop accelerating because it cuts off fuel.

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        • #5
          I think I know where the problem came from. One tire is more wasted than the other from when I had the open differential. So that is really screwing up my handling at higher speeds. I'm getting new tires as soon as my income tax return comes in. [img]graemlins/burnout.gif[/img]
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          • #6
            When I hit my speed limiter the car just hangs out at 118 and keeps rolling... its kinda like someone backs off the throttle for me, probably cuz of me E-throttle.
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            • #7
              At first I got my car up to about 110mph and then my revs was going up and down. Well this Sunday after getting my highflow cat, S, and I pipe installed, I ran it again and got my car up to 120mph at 4rpms. It didn't shut down or anything, but it won't go any faster neither. Did those extra mods make a difference or is it just my imagination?

              [ March 13, 2002: Message edited by: shortdog273 ]</p>
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              • #8
                <blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Allen Murrow:
                after my fuel shuts off and i continue pressing the peddel down going 118mph, the car actually turns off...
                so i put in the clutch, shift to neutral, and start it again....

                how do i get rid of the speed limiter?
                <hr></blockquote>

                Is it just me or does that seem kinda dangerous? free rolling at 120? I am suprised the manufacturer would let it do that?

                I have never hit the speed limiter, but, I wonder if it would do that in a automatic?

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                • #9
                  mine doestn shake but it does feel wierd... as if im slaming on the gas then letting off then slamming on the gas and letting off... off and on....

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                  • #10
                    Well, I don't think anything is suppose to happen when you hit the speed limiter. Right after the break in period I took my car out and go it up to about 120. My friend said it was 122, but that's not the point. I didn't feel anything happen, except I couldn't go any faster.
                    But as for the shaking, you might check the tire balance, that's usually where shaking would come from.

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                    • #11
                      <blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Big Tymer:
                      mine doestn shake but it does feel wierd... as if im slaming on the gas then letting off then slamming on the gas and letting off... off and on....<hr></blockquote>

                      exactly

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                      • #12
                        <blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Chrisz24:


                        Is it just me or does that seem kinda dangerous? free rolling at 120? I am suprised the manufacturer would let it do that?

                        I have never hit the speed limiter, but, I wonder if it would do that in a automatic?

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                        nope, in my 99 Automatic, it just doesnt go past 118mph. It pretty much just stops accelerating there, but that's it. It doesn't cut-off or anything.

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                        • #13
                          everytime i hit 112-115.....it just stops the car kinda jerks and slows downs....
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