So I was driving home at night after work. Freeway is pretty clear so going up the hill in my area, I decided to play speed racer. I'm going 70 on 6th gear so I drop it to 4th gear. The tach moved to 5000rpms and by 6000, the shift light starts to blink (comes with all manual z) as I approached the red line. By 6500 rpms, I look down and I shift to the gear I believed to be 4th. Well, instead of 5th, I hit 3rd, the redline hit 7500 rpms, scared me ****LESS! Jeez that was scrary. Hopefully nothing broke. God I'm a dork. Everything seems to be shifting fine so hopefully every is cool.

 

next time dont play your fast and furious cd so loud.

 

Rev limiter...ur gonna be A- OK

 

Honestly it was a great day at work (work at a nonprofit), felt great, listening to linkin park. Its one of those days where you have to open up the throttle and become reminded that you are driving a sports car. What are the safe shifting points to drop to 3rd gear? Is 70 too much?

 

The rev-limiter does absolute NOTHING about a mis-shift.

Down shifting to too low of a gear is a good way to rape your motor.

 

I have a feeling you would already know if something was wrong. Is your redline 6600? Either way a second or 2 past redline will not damage the engine. So I am told.

 

7500 doesn't sound that bad, so don't worry. If you were going 100 in 4th gear and went to 3rd, then your engine would hit crazy speeds.

 

you would'nt have that problem with an AT

 

+1

Checkout the thread below if you really want to know what happens to your motor if you mis-shift badly:

http://www.350zmotoring.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=44557

 

dropping 6th-->3rd at around 70mph is fine if you rev-match it properly. you'll rev pretty high (maybe about 5k? i dont know..), but 3rd doesn't redline until around 98mph, at least on the '06.

 

So you were shifting from 4th to 4th...

 

i think many of us have done the dreaded 5th to 2nd mis down shift. It happens, and it's nothing to lose sleep over.

 

When I first got my Z, I would downshift from 6th into 5th and not 3rd when trying to pass a car. I was such a newb.

 

You sure it doesn't redline till 98...? My '06 doesn't go that high I don't think... but I can't test it just this second cause I've got my new engine in and I don't want to mess it up like I did the last one.
-Max

 

 

this happened to me once, i wasnt playing racer but wasnt thinking i went from 6-3, i locked the rear wheels but punched the clutch in before it got near redline

 

3rd gear tops out around 88 mph on non revup Zs.

 

When I was full NA with cams and everything.. I went all the way to the top of third and went for forth but found second. No biggy. When I tore down the car to rebuild the bottom end.. Every valve was with within spec.

No worries

 

I'm a stick noob; how would you rev-match in that situation? Clutch in, rev to 5k rpm, shift to 3rd, clutch out?

 

Incorrect. It's just as easy to overrev with the AT while downshifting.