Check this out - no damage after missed shift
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From: Ft. Irwin, California (But Virginia is home)
Check this out - no damage after missed shift 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. 
Originally Posted by Schantin
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.
Boy was I scared shitless. 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
Originally Posted by Schantin
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.
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.
Originally Posted by PSYKOZ28
I missed second coming out of first in my 98 Z28 and that is why I have my 2000 Z28 now, lol.
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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
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
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.
Originally Posted by XpEdItIoUs
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.
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.
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
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...
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...
