Schantin

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Yep, I should have bought a lottery ticket. Missed the 1-2 shift last winter, spinning the engine to 7000RPM for AT LEAST 4-5 seconds. Today I was replacing pushrods and springs for a upcoming cam swap. I was EXTREMELY suprised that all 16 pushrods are arrow-straight as are the valves.

DONAIMIAN

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One day I was on the freeway with a loose shifter handle. I wasnt paying attention to how fast I was going and dropped it into 3rd, didnt like the way it felt and wanted more so I went to second not realizing I just took 3rd to 80mp, so thats **** up number one, so im on my way back to 3rd get off the clutch and im really in 1st. Boy was I scared shitless.

iamsickofitall

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i had a similar incident when i first got my car - it was my first manual transmission car and i went for a 5th to 3rd shift without going through 4th - i went to the left just a tad too much and found 1st at about 55 mph for a few seconds - boy was my car angry at me at the time but as with your instance - nothing bent or broke - got real lucky

niphilli

Shew...

You probably want to chanve the timing chain when you are in there.

Cal

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So that was on a stock valve train? With an upgraded valve train you can run 7000 rpm all day without hurting anything.

One day I was taking an on ramp at full thottle. I took it easy in 1st gear but did the 2nd to 3rd shift at 7000 rpm; except I missed 3rd and hit 1st! The rear tires were both skidding, so I imediatly knew what I did and pushed in the clutch and went to 3rd. So that must have forced the rpm well past 7000 rpm. It didn't hurt anything, but I have oversize, hardened pushrods and Katech rod bolts.

Dustin

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I missed second coming out of first in my 98 Z28 and that is why I have my 2000 Z28 now, lol.

Cal

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So you hit neutral with it floored? If so, that should not have hurt the engine since the rev limiter saves you in a case like this.

hpjunky98

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not quite sure how this would have damaged your motor....

RookieBeotch

maybe he hit reverse!??!?1

Mike K.

was thinking the same you can hit the normal rev limiter without effects, its the mechanical over reving that kills.

Dope

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Yeah I'm not seeing how you would have caused any damage. Missing the 1-2 doesn't do anything. It's when you miss 3rd and go into 1st, or miss 4th and go into 2nd, that you will mechanically overrev the engine and damage stuff.

If you just missed 1-2 (which is extremely hard to do anyway), I'm assuming you just went to neutral and bounced off the rev limiter which prevented any damage.

*shrug*

Dope

XpEdItIoUs

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What would most likely break over reving i was racing one time and i was at the top of 3rd and instead of going to 4th i went into 2nd but quickly pushed the clutch in and went to neutral.

DONAIMIAN

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If the RPM is high enough rods can fail, valavesprings, valves touching pistons, pushrods bending/breaking. You can **** up a lot of **** and it gets real expensive.

XpEdItIoUs

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My car idles normally and drives ok the only thing i notices after that happend is my steering wheel feels like it gets stuck when turning could my power steering pump gotten messed up by over reving.

Dope

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Could just be the steering shaft hitting one of your header primaries? Check for clearance.

Dope

pdd

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I was in 6th gear once and went to shove it in third and it went into first. seems like i hit 10k rpms the way the engine sounded, like an indy car. i bent alot of valves that day. i think the problem was my shift ****. i changed the shift **** that day from round to regtangular. i went back to round and all is good

Lightning

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I missshifted pretty bad once at the track, the car definitely hated me for those couple of seconds! Made a big bang, but we just did a heads/cam swap on my car and all of my stock stuff looked perfect in every way.

I thought for SURE i would have a bent pushrod or something for how bad it was...