Poll: Who has ever hit the rev limiter?

[Patton]

Unless your torque and Hp band has changed extensively from stock, you are needlessly damaging your engine by hitting it ESPECIALLY ON EVERY GEAR SHIFT! If your engine is stock, than you aren’t even getting the benefit of better track times, you are going SLOWER.
You know now that I think of it, even if your engine IS modded hitting the limiter cuts fuel and sputters the engine, taking seconds off of your end time. My advice would be to shift earlier than the limiter, there just is absolutely no benefit, while creating a healthy chance for a potentially catastrophic failure..... Why??

But I must admit, I like your attitude much better than those who keep garage queens... Unless you are just filthy rich and have a collection of course.... But I would still drive the nuts out of a different one each day.

Oh ya and limiter in 5th gear, I couldnt bang it and I was on a very very very long straight part of I-5 in central CA. just had it WOT for some time, got up to about 182 or so, its scary to look away from the road for more than a nano second. And it took an eternity (probably just 15 seconds or so) to climb even one MPH. So Im not sure you can really hit that sucker with a stock motor. I wonder what the top speed of 5th gear is mathmatically (i.e. in a drag less setting). Anybody?