Poll: Who has ever hit the rev limiter?

[DRM500RUBYZR-1]

I treasure my car.
I baby the car.
I LOVE my ZR-1!

That said; If you are not, on occasion,bumping into the rev-limiter, then either let someone else drive it if you really cannot bring yourself to do it and witness that the sky will not fall.
OR
Play a little more aggressively with it each time until you do.

Few things in life are as much FUN as DRIVING a C-4 ZR-1.
Any car revs to 5,000.
6,000 still quite a few.
7,000 not many

Aim for 7,500 by holding off until you see the needle pass through 7,000.
At the rate age is slowing me down, I may have to soon start the shift at 6,000 to hit 7,500
When young, I left on the last yellow light.
Today I could almost start one second after the stage light glows.
Ahhhh, the golden years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ENJOY IT WHILE YOU CAN!
Go for 7,500!!!

Marty

[richarde]

ZR-1 tachometers are notoriously inaccurate due to the IC within the instrument panel cracking and changing resistance due to age, heat and vibration. Batee.com sell a 90-96 Tach Fix 8000rpm kit for remedying this problem. In order to verify the accuracy of the tach, plug in a Tech 1 or ALDLDroid or similar.

[Zman]

Originally Posted by richarde

ZR-1 tachometers are notoriously inaccurate due to the IC within the instrument panel cracking and changing resistance due to age, heat and vibration. Batee.com sell a 90-96 Tach Fix 8000rpm kit for remedying this problem. In order to verify the accuracy of the tach, plug in a Tech 1 or ALDLDroid or similar.

I just hit the Rev Limiter for the first time yesterday. I hit it on a car that had the Tach corrected recently after being told it was reading high. I had the same reading corrected on another car. My guess would be that most Tachs read high. I see 7000-7500 occasionally and have only hit the limiter (once). Hitting the limiter for the first time took all the fun out of it, immediately! If the factory rev limiter is set at 7070 RPMS +/- and I can bump 7500 on a stock 90 without hitting the limiter then I must be reading high on that car also. Just my observations on the matter.

[Paul Workman]

After I finished calibrating the tach and doing my "510" porting (& Marc Haibeck tuning), I'd hit the rev limiter in 3rd gear about 100 yards BEFORE crossing the 1/4 mile trap. Marc Haibeck had to bump my limiter to 7500 to solve the "problem". I don't hit the rev limiter very often now tho. (I'm good for 121 mph in the traps now, in 3rd gear.

You can see from the 3.45 gear chart where the (7100 rpm) rev limiter would be a hindrance when trap speed of 121 in 3rd gear was in play... Oh! And if you haven't tried the "510" package, you don't know what your missing!!!

Edit: Update: Nearly 1/3 of Z owners have never "let the BEAST out of the cave"! Shame on you!

[mcich7781]

Hit the limiter on the back straight at the Corvette Museum Motorsports Track. Then I had to slam on the binders to turn. It was glorious!

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[EvanZR1]

If you've never hit the rev limiter, you're not driving it hard enough!
Having said that, once I put a Raptor shift light in mine, I never hit the rev limiter anymore and I run my car to the shift light every time I drive it. My rev limiter is 7400, and my shift light is set at 7300. The shift light is in the AC vent pointed right at my eye and as soon as it lights, it's an instant reaction to shift (don't actively think about it, it's muscle memory and subconscious reaction). I've spend a LOT of money on this car, and the shift light was the best mod I did to it.

[BigJohn]

Originally Posted by EvanZR1

If you've never hit the rev limiter, you're not driving it hard enough!
Having said that, once I put a Raptor shift light in mine, I never hit the rev limiter anymore and I run my car to the shift light every time I drive it. My rev limiter is 7400, and my shift light is set at 7300. The shift light is in the AC vent pointed right at my eye and as soon as it lights, it's an instant reaction to shift (don't actively think about it, it's muscle memory and subconscious reaction). I've spend a LOT of money on this car, and the shift light was the best mod I did to it.

Why, the power drops off before you hit the limiter.

[rush91]

What is the rev limit on a Z? Honestly, I've never noticed on a hard run. I know I've hit it because the engine is saying that's all I got, time to shift.....But never been looking at the tach at time of shift to see exactly.

[EvanZR1]

Originally Posted by BigJohn

Why, the power drops off before you hit the limiter.

Guess I should have clarified, I'm running a 391 with stage 2 cams. The power does NOT drop off.

[BigJohn]

Originally Posted by EvanZR1

Guess I should have clarified, I'm running a 391 with stage 2 cams. The power does NOT drop off.

Cool is it a stroked engine?