phile

I took my Z out of storage a little over one week ago. So far this year I have bounced it off the rev limiter like 3 times! Idk what's wrong with me. What are the consequences for doing this as much as I have recently?

I have another question. Whenever I really accelerate to high rpms, the car smells strange. Like an oil burning type smell. It happens almost instantly when I launch the car and drive up to about 80 and back off. I smell it for about 15 seconds. MY Z only has about 7300 miles on it, and I know it's not the catalytic converter smell (entirely different smell). Nor is the smell from burning rubber, I know what that smells liek too My car has always had the smell I described above. I was just wondering if it's normal. BTW, I've had one oil change so far.

Dr Bonz

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DEATH!!!!








j/k, probably not a big deal but I wouldn't make a habit of it.

328skidpad

I have been driving stick for 15 yrs and push my z to its limits daily. I have hit the rev limiter at least 200 times to date. dont worry.
remember the window sticker "fuels the rebellious spirit" dont worry at least the nissan engineers realized our need for speed.
rev on...

ranger5oh

Thats the point of the revlimiter... to not hurt your engine. So dont worry. It honestly doesnt matter.

As for the smell, I would bet it is your clutch. On a hard launsh your clutch will get HOT, and when you run it like a bat out of hell.. it gets hotter.. then it smells. I am sure we have all smelled it, anyone who drives stick long enough knows the clutch smell.

AParshall04

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clutch smell is the worst smell in the world. Try starting the car out of 3rd or 4th, youll smell it.

12SecZ

What is this clutch you all speak of??

peptidbond

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HA!

As for clutch smell, it is a horrible putrid metalic smell. Everytime my G/F drove my car, that is all I could smell in the garage. Hence, no more driving by anyone but me. She actually argued that it was more important for her to drive the Z than it was for me to save my $500 clutch. Argh!

VQ35Kompressor

Dang. Why btf out of your motors so much??? Sounds like you guys have a lot of money to play! Blown motors...blown trannys...keep it up! Lolz...

03G35s

I think the quote in your sig says it all...

PainProphet

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that girlfriend=BOOT

MySunset350Z

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lol, i probably bounce off the rev limiter a good 8-12times with every burn out at the track. gotta warm up those M/T's.

like someone has already said. its to prevent damage to your engine. so if you do bounce off of it, then its doing its job and keeping your engine happy.

jreiter

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I do understand that the point of the rev limiter is to prevent you from blowing your engine, but from the way I understand it it seems like they can also be dangerous, too. Don't they simply cut the flow from the fuel injectors? If that's the case, wouldn't that result in an instant severe lean condition?

Does anyone know the technical details behind how the Z limiter works... or limiters on other cars?

phile

Hey guys, thanks for the replies. No, the smell i'm speaking of isn't a clutch smell. I forgot to mention I have smelled that before also :P The smell i'm talking about reminds me of burning oil.

john98r

You may be smelling exhaust. I know some people have complained about an exhaust smell when accelerating hard. I don't know if that's what it is but the same thing happens to me.

phile

Wow, I think you may have helped me fill in an obvious gap! If the exhaust smell you're talking about is independent of the catalytic converter smell (in other words, they are two different smells), then that's probably my answer. I never once considered that it was an exhaust smell leaking out(pre-cat), because I always associted any bad exhuast smell with the sulfury smell of the cats while idling. I'm amazed that never really dawned on me. Thanks

Juztin

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Ha, last week I bounced off the rev limiter merging onto I-25 to get in a run against my buds motorcycle. Needless to say my left side tensioner pulley came off making me loose my power steering & alternator. Taking a turn @ 60 mph on 19x8 inch front wheels and realizing you have no power steering is not quite a wonderful moment lol.

VandyZ

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Hahaha, I bounce it off my 7200 rev limiter. No harm done.

mpol99

Do you have the UR or stock pulley????
Pulley coming off from hitting the rev limiter sounds weird to me....

jreiter

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Yeah, I wouldn't think doing it once here and there would hurt the car. I'm just worried about these folks that hit the thing on a regular basis. I mean... it *can't* be good for the engine, right? It's just such a harsh occurance on the system as a whole. Granted, it's better than overreving past redline (which is definitely destructive!), but I would guess it's still bad if done often enough.

phile

Jesus! Why did that happen? Glad to hear nothing bad happened.