rev limiters

[Ratters]

simple question hopefully...

 

what's the best make/type to get?

 

& a stupid question...

 

how do you program the rev limit in?

 

i've seen pics of some with a few buttons on the front but no display ofr anything

[X-pack-Glyn]

 

what's the best make/type to get?

 

 

your right foot and changing gear on instict, about as good as you can get....

 

i dont like having to change gear, but it dont mean im about to fit an auto box

[Fiesta Steve]

 

what's the best make/type to get?

 

 

your right foot and changing gear on instict, about as good as you can get....

 

i dont like having to change gear, but it dont mean im about to fit an auto box

 

Thats all very well but what happens when you miss a gear and your little crossflow is already at 8500 rpm on its rubber crank ? You find a neutral and floor it, goodbye engine.

 

I have a mirco dynamics limiter and I don't use it to determine when I'll change gear, thats not what they are for. I set it well up the rev range out of the way of the revs that I use so in a normal racing situation ie. Santa Pod etc.. I'll hopefully never hit it, but its there should the worst happen.

 

Mine is an RL4 the best there is Big dial on the front, set it to whatever you want and off you go.

[Fiesta Steve]

and if you've never missed a gear your not trying hard enough

[Ratters]

cheers.

 

i can normally change gear 'by ear' so to speak but like steve says there's always that chance you could miss or over rev it & a £100 limiter could save your £2000+ engine.

 

am i right in presuming with a shift light one the best thing would be to set the light at say 7,000 then the limiter at 7,500?

 

i'll have a look at the rl4 steve

[marky4]

i've got an omex one

[Guest MK1gaz]

Yes the omex ones are ace and cheap , plus they have shift lights , full throttle gear shift and launch facilitys .

[bmxdave]

I fitted an omex one with the light. Ive got it set to 6000rpm at the moment to look after the engine, with a 5500rpm light. Its a soft cut so it starts to cut off power at about 5800rpm. Its really easy to reset, and when im giving it some its set to 7500rpm. with about 7000rpm light.

 

And it sounds great when you hit the limiter in every gear

 

But as Steve put it, its great reassurance for a missed gear. I recently did a full bore 6500rpm gear change with the intention of going from 4th to 5th, i went into 3rd though and the engine braking without the sparks just killed the revs. I think if i didnt have the limiter the revs wouldnt have dropped right down and i wouldve lunched the crank.

[Ratters]

thanks for the input guys much appreciated.

 

i was looking at the omex speed system [i think] in the burtons catalogue today which is the rev limiter/shift light one

[andypipe]

And put it out of reach. Many a time i have ripped the wires out of my RL4 so i can rev the fooker to 10k