Saturday 5/25 DRIVE: Pacifica/Hwy 1/Skyline Cruise!

[Clipdat]

LOL, What?! That would make me feel better about missing out on that dope shift knob haha

Originally Posted by JackSmiley

I'll give out a set of wheels (still thinking about it) the next time i attend a drive.

[clzzical]

Originally Posted by Clipdat

The tunnels were pretty cool, too bad our group was stuck directly behind a semi truck the entire time! Who was behind me in the tunnel??

Can't believe CHP decided to mess w/ our group and dish out a no front plate ticket. I bet you it was just because it was a holiday weekend or some bs.

How many ppl got nailed by the no-plate?

[Clipdat]

Just one, as far as I know.

[NorCalGirl]

Originally Posted by clzzical

How many ppl got nailed by the no-plate?

Just 1 out of 17 cars, but I think only 5 or so actually had a plate on the front lol

[BlaineWasHere]

That's why I run my front plate! Bitches can't mess with me!!!

[86BRZ]

Talking about tunnel...I am the second car following the garbage truck down hill, towards to the end of the tunnel, 3rd gear ramping up to over 6k-7k rpm and all the sudden my engine cut me off the power for a second, I see a red light flash in the rpm meter, feel empty under the gas padel for the same second, and then things come back. Mine is a stick shift and this is my frist time experience this, any thoughts? Pushing too hard?

[BigFatFlip]

Originally Posted by 86BRZ

Talking about tunnel...I am the second car following the garbage truck down hill, towards to the end of the tunnel, 3rd gear ramping up to over 6k-7k rpm and all the sudden my engine cut me off the power for a second, I see a red light flash in the rpm meter, feel empty under the gas padel for the same second, and then things come back. Mine is a stick shift and this is my frist time experience this, any thoughts? Pushing too hard?

Hmmm I don't usually get up there, was it right at red line? Could be a momentary fuel cutoff to keep from damaging the engine?

[PMok]

yeah the behavior sounds like you hit the rev limiter to me. Is your shift light programmed to come on at 7400 RPM or sooner? I set mine to 7000 because otherwise I am not fast enough to upshift when I see the light.

[omegared19]

@PMok, sweet videos

[86BRZ]

Originally Posted by PMok

yeah the behavior sounds like you hit the rev limiter to me. Is your shift light programmed to come on at 7400 RPM or sooner? I set mine to 7000 because otherwise I am not fast enough to upshift when I see the light.

I have not touch the setting of the rev limiter so that is still factory setting. I guess the down hill get my rev up faster than I used to. I guess need to go back to owner's manual.

[RC51ed]

Originally Posted by PMok

yeah the behavior sounds like you hit the rev limiter to me. Is your shift light programmed to come on at 7400 RPM or sooner? I set mine to 7000 because otherwise I am not fast enough to upshift when I see the light.

I have my rev light set up to 3500 to remind me to slow down and save gass. Lol.

Then again when we hit the canyons, I just keep an eye on the rpm gauge instead of the light since I set the light so early.

[PMok]

Originally Posted by RC51ed

I have my rev light set up to 3500 to remind me to slow down and save gass. Lol.

Then again when we hit the canyons, I just keep an eye on the rpm gauge instead of the light since I set the light so early.

LOL yeah when I was in the break-in period (first 1000mi) I had mine set to 3800 RPM so I wouldn't go over 4K. Man that was a painful few weeks.

In everyday driving and even on the canyon runs, I rarely rev up to 7K. For me the light is more of an "oh shit I better upshift" reminder in case I do get up there.

[PMok]

Originally Posted by BigFatFlip

Those lights reflecting on your car are trippy, I could almost hear the daftpunk Tron music

ok, I just couldn't resist... so here we are, rev. 2 of the tunnel video, aka the TRON Remix!

[ame]http://youtu.be/PMuBMfOPG3g[/ame]

[SnakeEyes]

Originally Posted by 86BRZ

Talking about tunnel...I am the second car following the garbage truck down hill, towards to the end of the tunnel, 3rd gear ramping up to over 6k-7k rpm and all the sudden my engine cut me off the power for a second, I see a red light flash in the rpm meter, feel empty under the gas padel for the same second, and then things come back. Mine is a stick shift and this is my frist time experience this, any thoughts? Pushing too hard?

1) In third gear, at 6k -7k rpm you will hit 70 -80 mph. Why so fast?

2) The reason the gas got cut off because you reached the red line and our ecu won't let the engine rev any further due to their design. So the electronic cuts of throttle. It's normal. Try 0-60 and feel that again if your shifting is slow by few milliseconds. Think like the gas cut off as engine safety.