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I was just curious but is it against the law to remove the speed limitor and rev limitor from off of your car? if not anybody do it?
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It is NOT illegal in the U.*.
Limiters are not required by law. In fact, there are still many cars that do not have limiters.
However, you don't want to remove the rev limiter, you just need to reset the shift point slightly higher. There'* nothing to gain by allowing the engine to go above 6000rpm. The torque is already falling off at that point.
You also don't want to get rid of the neutral-rpm limiter. Revving that high with no load is bad for the motor.
Limiters are not required by law. In fact, there are still many cars that do not have limiters.
However, you don't want to remove the rev limiter, you just need to reset the shift point slightly higher. There'* nothing to gain by allowing the engine to go above 6000rpm. The torque is already falling off at that point.
You also don't want to get rid of the neutral-rpm limiter. Revving that high with no load is bad for the motor.
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There are no laws prohibiting it as far as I know.
Could void a persons warranty perhaps.
You need to reprogram the pcm, mine is and the speed limiter has been bumped up to 250mph
Could void a persons warranty perhaps.
You need to reprogram the pcm, mine is and the speed limiter has been bumped up to 250mph
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ok so unless i add some more power to the engine there would be no need for me to change the rev. but in order to do the speed how would i go about donig that because i seen you said something about resetting the computer?
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Re: Quick Question
Originally Posted by Sleeper93
I was just curious but is it against the law to remove the speed limitor and rev limitor from off of your car? if not anybody do it?
From a strict compliance with the law perspective, altering any of the data or code within the PCM is tampering with an "emmisions control" device on the car...like anybody is really going to dump the PCM and compare it byte for byte with all the GM code to see if you did any bit twiddling
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ok but on to a new question on the performance side. how much would a CAI cost and where could i find 1? because i went to a Autozone and they didnt have 1
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