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Originally Posted by dizzyj
your fine. with an 8200 rpm redline, you really have to do something stupid to money shift and do damage. This car likes to be in the yellow, you should drive it there more often  |
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Originally Posted by mkoesel
Even if it was 75mph you were only about 4% over the maximum 2nd gear speed of 72 mph ( http://www.m3post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=292787). So that would be about 8700 RPM. It is probably fine. And if you are positive it was not even in the red then you probably were only going 70 mph and are definitely totally fine. |
I'm guessing I got lucky and dodged a bullet. I appreciate posts like this.
What about the variable tach in this situation. Would it have immediately dropped the red to 6000 or 6500 RPMs?
I have seen that happen when I hit the rev limiter on acceleration. Anyone else seen that before? I've had it happen about 3 or 4 times in my 5 months with the car.