Is it supposed to be like that? My 87 buzzer goes off at 7000 and it actually cuts out around 7500 (+ or - 100) Anyways, seems like that's a pretty big gap between the buzzer and limiter. Hmmm, maybe mine's wrong?

 

Yup Yup... My Buzzer (Located behind the guage cluster area) does buzz... at 6500-6700



than i usually shift very shortly after that. Like Rotary>Piston said earlier... theres no reason to rev higher than that. that's where the power band cuts out.





on a side note... any one know how much more 'goose' i'll get from a nice set of racing beat header?

 

well my old 89 GTU i used to rev to 8200-8400rpm... right befoer it would cut fuel. it was fine. just maintain the car and it will be fine



oh yeah its been a while but you can hit 60mph redlining second. there is no way you can hit 45+ mph unless you rev it to 10k or you have bigger tires in the back and your speedo is off

 

I beg to differ

Eccentric shaft flex, apex seal chatter, stationary gear problems, oil starvation. to name a few

Basically, going into redline isn't good. The only time I'd ever do it is burying the needle at the end of the quarter to prevent a last minute shift.

 

beat me to it.......you start to run out of oil pressure because of the bypass too. That can be fixed easily though

 

Those are problems you are more likely to have with sustained high Rs. Short durations of redline should be no problem.

 

i did that this morning, the tach in the 83 is slow to wake up so i shifted at 4k on the tach, which was about 45mph, oops



mike

 

I gotta show you guys what overeving does to an engine. My last engine broke the mail bearing and smacked it self to the rotor housing. It sounded terrible.



My old s4 engine died a slow death cuase i used to take to 9k alot and leave it there when i was racing. I lowered my cut of to 7500 cause rotaries will keep revving.



C

 

since were on the subject of Redline.. and so fourth. From what i understand, isnt it good for a Rotary to tach the engine up every once in a while?? Even being in stock form (internally)



I mean, sure, dont hold the damn thing at 7 or 8 grand for 10 min, but everyonce in a while (once or twice a day) wont hurt to tach it up.. right?

 

nope its fine