Is it bad to hit your Rev limiter?

[y_p_w]

Originally Posted By: 4ever4d
I have a theory that it isn't what you would want to do often as proof by all the puffing, mosquito killing rice burners around my area!

Heavily modded and re-chipped. That'll basically kill any engine.

My dad's '96 Regal Custom with a stock 3800 Series II engine was pretty bad with oil burning, and my dad was too scared to drive it hard.

 

[Donald]

I got up to almost 2500 RPM on my pickup recently. Wow!!

 

[FCD]

If your engine is cold and you just suddenly stomp on the gas pedal from idle , yes you are hurting your engine.
If your engine is warmed up, and you progressively get to the redline , say that you are driving on a private road with no speed limit or the autobahn in Germany or whatever doing a top speed run , you're not hurting your engine.

 

[SteveSRT8]

Originally Posted By: Donald
I got up to almost 2500 RPM on my pickup recently. Wow!!


haha, I rarely see 2 grand in ours, same in my sig car, it is always slurring around at 1500 rpm...