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Ok, so I drive hard sometimes, and my cars full power comes in just below 6000 rpm. When I am in a hurry, or accelerating, I sometimes rev to almost 6000 rpm. If I maintain my car, and take care of it, does taking it to high rpm do damage?? Just curious. I havent had any probs outta my car. I make sure that i dont take it over 3500 rpm until it is in the middle of the temp gauge. Any comments on this??
unable to give professional mechanical advice however it sounds like thats how it should be bloody well driven every now and again. i do with mine, gotta get the cobwebs out and all.
When I had the stock chip, it would barely move until it hit ~4000 RPM. Now that it's sharked, it'll pull from as little as 2500... But I know how you feel :)
Short of increased engine wear, doesn't hurt anything.
How much wear are we talking here. Like 20,000 miles reduction in life?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeff N.
that's almost impossible to gauge, the better the oil the less dammage is done
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Originally Posted by bimmerboi18
Here's at least one discussion of the impact of high RPM on an engine. I'm sure you can find more.
Start here...
http://www.metricmechanic.com/pg79.htm
then go back to here to get the next pages in the article..
http://www.metricmechanic.com/tabcon.html
What about in an automatic tranmission? I heard somewhere that high revs hurt our crappy transmission or something?
i'm sure they can. my tranny is going to disenigrate soon, i'm sure. but that;ll jsut be an excuse to do an MT conversion, so no worries.
I knew about nikasil, but never knew about the crap transmission when i bought the car. I should keep away from S4 now.