Miata Mailing List: September 1999, Message #264

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Lisa,

You don't ever get out of first on your commute? :) 
Seriously, especially if you're going to autocross,
you should get out and hit the rev limiter.  Maybe not
on your own residential street, but stop in a deserted
mall parking lot (good for something!), put it in
first, launch at ~4500 rpm (whee!!!  a little squeal
and smoke, then Spike will hook up and take your
breath away) and let Spike bang against his leash a
few times.  You don't want the first time it happens
to be a big surprise.

At my last autocross event, because of the course
design I rode the limiter in first 3x per run x 5
runs.  I didn't worry at all about my baby being hurt
because of it.

Scott

--- "Lisa S." <clash_girl@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hey, actually I *almost* got that far this morning.
> :)
>  I was taking a corner and caught a glimpse of the
> tach as I was coming out of the corner and shifted
> up.
>  Didn't quite make it to the rev limiter though.
> 
> I am having some kinda fun! ;)
> 
> It's been suggested that I hit the limiter on
> purpose
> a few times in order to know what it feels like so I
> won't freak out when it does happen.  I haven't had
> the opportunity yet on my normal commute, but as I
> continue to play around with Spike, I'm sure I'll
> get
> there eventually. (soon!)
> 
> Thanks!  I'll be ready for autocross by Spring!!!!
> :) 
> Gotta get some better tires though....
> 
> Lisa & Spike
> Team Glad this is a long weekend so I can play!
> 
> 
> --- Dave Okamoto <okamoto@home.com> wrote:
> > Have you visisted redline yet?  If and more
> likely,
> > when you do, don't
> > freak out when the fuel cutoff kicks in which
> > prevents you from
> > over-revving.  If you haven't already experienced
> > it, it'll feel like
> > your car has developed a bad high speed miss
> (which
> > it has,
> > intentionally).  It'll be fine as soon as you
> > lighten up on the old gas
> > pedal and let the revs fall below 7,0000 rpm or
> so.
> 
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