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Old 08-19-2014, 04:25 PM   #36
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Originally Posted by WNDSRFR View Post
You can't go above redline. It's got a rev limiter. You can hold the throttle to the floor all day and the engine can not go over the rev limit.
You can force the engine to exceed redline by downshifting and dumping the clutch, no rev limiter on a production automobile to my knowledge is going to stop that event, mechanical over-rev is a very real phenomenon.

Hopefully that's outside the scope of what the OP was wondering about.
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