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Puffy911 said:
A couple of things happened. First the rev limit over-run has been recorded in your P-car's computer. Second, the fuel supply should have been momentarily cut off as you exceeded red-line.
Jul 1, 2007 10:08:23 AM
Jul 1, 2007 8:45:40 PM
Jul 4, 2007 12:18:44 PM
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eljeffo64 said:
An easy mistake to make - potentially costly; my advice here is to relax with the gear shift (don't strangle the shifter in a moment of adrenaline fuelled tension!) the soft touch always gives you a smoothe shift into the default 3rd/4th gear plane. BTW, having driven both there's no difference between LHD and RHD with this issue in my opinion.
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Heist said:
If your engine goes bad, DENY DENY DENY and raise bloody murder with the shop.
I don't care what the BLEEPIDY - BLEEPIN computer says happened. If this BLEEPIDY $80K car's engine can't handle a momentary overrev without major damage, then the BLEEPIDY engineers are at fault not making their design robust enough for a street car. I can accidently overrev a BLEEPIDY Toyota Prius and it won't blow itself all to hell later on.
Fix my BLEEPIDY car or my attorney is the next person I speak with, the press is the second, Porsche members the third, better business beareau the fourth.
Quote:Personally I don't want any more "nanny state" safety gizmos on my cars (or motorcycles). We already have ABS that can't be disabled (they don't even teach threshold braking at most high performance driving schools anymore), traction and stability control that eventually will not be allowed to be disabled (tip over avoidance), lane deviation warning systems, active cruise control, rev limiters (never saw them on carbureted vehicles) and even motorcycles with technology that will not allow the motorcycle to wheelie.
Greentree said:...This problem would be easy enough to lock out. One could put a gizmo either on the shifting shaft as it exits the back of the transmission, or preferably, build it into the transmission itself. A solenoid would simply lock the first/second shift rail in neutral the moment the Motronic senses vehicle speed above, say, sixty miles per hour. Since engine RPM in second is simply MPH times 100, that means you wouldn't be allowed into second if it meant the engine RPM would exceed 6000 upon clutch release. The solenoids would be fail-safe. That is, if they failed they would permit shifting, not prevent it.
How about it, Porsche? I can't be the first person in the world to have thought of this. Your design already prevents Type I overrevs. It would be easy enough to prevent Type II overrevs as well. Of course, this is not a problem with the Tiptronic, but until a sequential shift transmission is introduced, it will remain the manual transmission for me.