High revvin Xcal2 Racin

[storlied]

lol.. wtf is with the title?.. haha..

Anyways..
I guess my main question would be is.. how much can the 5.0L take? How much of a rev is too much?
If I'm hard on it, it'll get to 6000rpms before it shifts.. and it shifts Hard... [I kinda like it.. I don't know if it's good.. but yea..]

If 6krpm's are too much, I was thinking I would down the "D" Rev Limit to 5000rpms or 5500rpms.. or whatever is the safe max..

 

[Charlie]

Nice title...I don't know how high it can go, but I wouldn't take it past where the stock limiter is... I always thought it was at 5500?

 

[section525]

A stock 302 can easily go 9,500 revolutions in a 60 second period. Keep it in 2nd gear and just go go go.

 

[Charlie]

A stock 302 can easily go 9,500 revolutions in a 60 second period. Keep it in 2nd gear and just go go go.

Where is the stock limiter on these?

 

[section525]

5400ish?

 

[justin146]

lol.. wtf is with the title?.. haha..

Anyways..
I guess my main question would be is.. how much can the 5.0L take? How much of a rev is too much?
If I'm hard on it, it'll get to 6000rpms before it shifts.. and it shifts Hard... [I kinda like it.. I don't know if it's good.. but yea..]

If 6krpm's are too much, I was thinking I would down the "D" Rev Limit to 5000rpms or 5500rpms.. or whatever is the safe max..

Your valves will start floating at about 5400RPM. There is really no reason to rev that high- My rev limiter is set at 5300.

 

[Jakee]

Your valves will start floating at about 5400RPM. There is really no reason to rev that high- My rev limiter is set at 5300.

Huh? 5400 RPM's? That doesn't sound right to me.

 

[Turdle]

I wouldn't be pushing the stock valve train past 5500,
this being the "top" of the shift-

 

[Turdle]

A stock 302 can easily go 9,500 revolutions in a 60 second period. Keep it in 2nd gear and just go go go.

Silly:

 

[justin146]

Huh? 5400 RPM's? That doesn't sound right to me.

Yeah, the stock valvesprings cant take very much RPM.

 

[storlied]

It's the tune I guess, or the transmission being slow.
Do you think putting the limiter back on would solve this?
[By default the limiter is removed]

 

[Turdle]

I would move the shift point down. You should see the tach "kiss" about 5700 when it shifts.

 

[jah81592]

Daniels shifts are raised by 200 rpm. I would be willing to bet that his stock tach is off by around 150-200. Revvin' to 6k- definately unnecessary. The engine has already begun to "roll over" at that rpm.-j

 

[techieman33]

Do you have a laptop to do some data logging with? Then we could really see what rpm it's shifting at, I know mine tach reads a little high.

 

[storlied]

Negative, no laptop.

If I put the rev limiter down, would that force it to stop? [In the sense of not letting it get any higher than what the limiter is set at?]

I honestly think a shift kit at this point would help, the transmission is just so slow.. the computer tells it to shift and it's like.. huh?.. what? oh ok...

 

[Turdle]

Typically-
you want the rev limiter just out of raange from where you are actually using power-
in other words-
moving the rev limiter down would cause a loss of power from the alternating misfire induced-

I'd play with the shift points-if it was me.


I know how we can check your tach though--

shift the gear selector to 2
now-accelerate slowly-at about 30mph punch it and hold it floored-

if you can hit 80 mph in 2nd gear you will be around5700- 5800 rpm's.


now--do this and tell us at what vehicle speed the limiter kicks in. I'm curious.

 

[storlied]

I'm gonna have to wait man.. it was perfect a day ago.. now we got a crap load of snow and ice everywhere... I was driving just a bit ago in 2nd though... Uhm.. The tune by default has the limiter removed. I'm going to have to turn it on. [But what to set it at?]

I don't think I wanna go to 80mph in 2nd.............. I don't like going 50 in 2nd.. It just doesn't seem good.... lol....

Either way, I have to wait.

EDIT: Wait wait, it's not removed I don't think.. it is set at 6000rpm... so it's "kinda" removed.

 

[Charlie]

Funny you talk about going 50 in second gear...sometimes mine will drop into 2nd going down the freeway if I hit a really big hill

In first gear, when I get on it, it shifts into second at 50-55mph.

 

[storlied]

That doesn't sound good? idk....

I'm havin a blast dude... hit my ABS killswitch and mashing the pedal.... although.. I do miss the clear dry streets... arg... It needs to clear up...

 

[storlied]

Kinda off subject but... I just kicked a 2 door sport 4.0L's ass.....
He was all revvin at a red light.. gettin ready to launch.. I didn't even launch or anything n I was gone... he prolly spun out.... lol

AWD FTW!