[V8] Re: '93 5-speed writeup

[Coleman, David]

This morning I was gazing coffee-less at my tach and thinking about that 5800rpm rev limiter thing -- I think I must have been misreading your tach the other night.  The third-gear limiter still seemed to come on early, but probably closer to 6100-6200.   And even though I took it past 6300, it didn't hit the limiter in 1st or 2nd.  So the killjoy still seems to be there.

In the interest of science, I set out in search of the limiter on my car, and reached 7300 in 1st thru 3rd before chickening out and upshifting.  No limiter so far... and that's pretty deep into the red, which is why I've never been there before.

Maybe this is part of the PT/ABZ ecu difference -- or to be pragmatic, maybe VAG thought it was in the best interests of the 4.2 to limit it where it does.   I wonder if Ned's 4.2 chip nixes the limiter?

-DaveC.

> Nice write-up on Audifans.  I'll have to check into the rev 
> limiter issue.