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Old 12-13-2005, 09:47 PM
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i have a question: My bonneville will not rev over 4000 rpm when the car is stopped or when im in low speeds i dont know if thats common or not but if anybody knows how to get rid of it please help thanks..........
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there is a rev limiter to prevent the engine from damage
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i have a question: My bonneville will not rev over 4000 rpm when the car is stopped or when im in low speeds i dont know if thats common or not but if anybody knows how to get rid of it please help thanks..........
please dont be a ******* idiot and do what I used to do when I was in highschool..
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haha exactly hans... i remember walking out of school, jumpin in my lumna, startup with foot to the floor, bounce it off the rev limiter 4-5 times, and then drop it in gear and do a huge *** burnout out of the parking lot.........to show my love for school? idk...

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im not trying to be an idiot is that every time i rev high it makes my exhaust sound like
**** (sorry excuse the languague) and it truly does suck........ and besides don't want to sound coky(sorry if miss spelled that) but i do have one of the fastest car in my school and once in a while you have to show who'* boss....
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im not trying to be an idiot is that every time i rev high it makes my exhaust sound like
***^ (sorry excuse the languague) and it truly does suck........ and besides don't want to sound coky(sorry if miss spelled that) but i do have one of the fastest car in my school and once in a while you have to show who'* boss....

who needs noise? just deliver results and youre one of the fastest? even with no SC? not bad
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im the third fastest
1)porche
2)twinturbo VR4
3)Bonneville
Old 12-13-2005, 10:18 PM
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i used to be the fastest but those cars came out of nowere...


oh yea how do i get rid of that if i can....
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Just curious, what else is in the lot?





i hope this thread doesn't go south, but the natural law of forums might cause it to do so :o










... and you don't want to get rid of the rev limiter. It'* a safety measure to stop you from blowing stuff to bits... its there for a reason.
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theres a honda civics 3 of em with serious turbo'* and still got owned by the pontiac theres an eclipse base i think, there a grand prix red, double exhaust, there are mustangs all v6 though, and a stealth but the guy is quiet he dont like to race or nothing, and the cars that i mensioned before


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