Re: 16V Rev Limiter

[Anthony Pelletier <vwnuts@yahoo.com>]

Brian didn't have a problem removing the limiter off
his cis-e 8v right?  How about using the knock sensing
box from an 8v?  I hear the timing curve may even be
better allowing us to use closer to 12 degrees rather
than 6.  Then again did brian rev it past 7200? 
Brian?

.02



--- Riley McDowall <roog@home.com> wrote:
> At 10:39 PM -0700 7/16/00, Craig Williams wrote:
> >Well that brings me to my question...On a 16V
> Scirocco with CIS-E, there is
> >a rev limiter built in that cuts the fuel at 7200
> RPM's. How do you disable
> >this feature? Mine is kicking in at about 6900
> RPM's (the stock RPM guage
> >might be a little off.)
> 
> I went through this whole deal last year, and the
> short answer is that
> you're stuck with the rev limiter.  The fuel pump
> relay may or may not have
> a cutoff built into it, but nothing you do to the
> relay will let you rev
> past 7200.  To find out for yourself, try jumping it
> and driving around.
> You still won't get past 7200.  Brian Honnold posted
> a very elegant way of
> disabling the fuel cutoff awhile ago (I still have
> it if anyone wants it),
> which Chris and Shawn alluded to, but it doesn't
> appear to work for the
> CIS-E setups found on 16v cars.  It gets rid of the
> soft cutoff and leaves
> you with a harsh one that kicks in at exactly 7200. 
> Watching your car hit
> that limiter while loaded down on the dyno is very,
> very unpleasant.  :P
> 
> From what I can tell, the rev limiter lives in
> either the ECU or the
> distributor.  The best info I have says that
> replacing the 16v distributor
> with one from a Polo (convert from points if you
> want) will do the trick.
> Who knows.....
> 
> 
> 
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