[Hib Halverson]

When I owned Barney, I hit the rev limiter once in a while, mostly in first or second because I didn't properly anticipate the delay in the tach. What I wouldn't have given for an HUD back then.



As I ran my car on the chassis dyno enough to know where the engine made power and what the best shift points were, I almost never would tag the limiter intentionally. The Street Skinner engine in Barney which used stock manifolds and cats made right at 500-hp but it peaked at 6500 or so and was "all done" by 6800 and that's where I usually shifted such that after the shift I ended up down around peak torque.


With my current ZR1, Bad-Assed Bee, I'm always hitting the limiter in first and second if I'm manually shifting. Left in drive, the darn thing always shifts just before the limiter.



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