Originally posted by AngryRedTicTac:
Redline is a good thing! I've been enjoying the heck out of my wife having a car that actually likes to rev. Her previous car, an 00 Jetta was wheezing at 5k. Ever since I had my 89' SHO, I can't think of shifting that short, it's not right. Got a little tired of those clutch jobs though.

I haven't banged off the rev limiter yet, thats still frenzied Miata terrain for the time being, but soon enough, I'll find the cutoff. Just a matter of time;-)



Rev limiters are good. I used to run my Miata on the limiter for 500ft down the end of a straight at one particular auto-x layout we ran where it wasn't worth it to shift to 2nd just to drop it back to 1st at the turn Sounded like hell but it was faster - that car did not like downshifting to 1st.

I run my 133,000+ mile CSVT to the redline every morning and pretty regularly bang the rev limiter if I'm not paying close attention in 1st. Stock clutch still intact.

Scott

Troll! '99 BMW 328i