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Ok, as I said in my introduction, I know nothing about cars. I was
wondering. Is there something like a governor or rev limiter on an 02
Regal? When in park or neutral if I rev the engine up to about 4000 it
starts sputtering and sounding as if it is missing. I know I probably
should sit in park and rev it that high and usually I wouldn't. I had some
work done on the cat and they replaced the converter. The car sounder a
little louder and I happen to rev it some to hear a little better and
notice it sounded as if it would die at 4000. The car seems to run like a
champ driving and all. I am just wondering I guess is this something I
should have checked or is it supposed to do this? You know to prevent a
dummy like me saying "Wow look how much louder my pipes are! Boom!" (Blown
engine lol) :screwy:
shepfromva
You probbably have a rev limiter in neutral gear...no idea why a buick
would have this but many cars wont let you rev past a certain point in
neutral, only under load can you go to full RPM. Does your car drive
normally under load and go all the way to redline?
newyorker
Yes it runs absolutely fine when in drive. I just noticed it when
listening to the pipes. So, what you think is it's something the
manufacture did to keep dummies like me from blowing their engines then?
shepfromva
Many newer cars have them, probably so you can't floor it by accident.
dvdrose18
Yea it's fine...I wish I had that system, I can redline my car with the
clutch in which causes a TON of wheelspin/smoke/wheelhop
newyorker
Which is usually fun. :orglaugh:
Satty101
