Ever hit the governor on your car?

[mrSHEiK124]

Curious to see if any cars have got anything other than the usual 115-120 MPH governor, which AFAIK is only set as such because of the tire rating...

 

[Pepsi90919]

no

 

[Kalvin00]

no governor on the bike....well, 186, but they will only do indicated ~180

 

[Insane3D]

My speed 6 is "electronically limited" to 149MPH...too bad because it would do a bit better than that.

I'd love to take it out on a deserted airport runway or something where I could see what it would do. Also, I'll probably get a tuner at some point, not sure if they have the ability to disable such limiters...

The Mustang is not limited...

 

[TallBill]

I hit the 110 limit in my old crown victoria.

 

[funboy6942]

No gov on the 88 Firebird, havent taken it past 120 though, the thought of the ticket and car car taken away from me makes me take the foot off the pedal, even though I still want to see how much faster it will go.

 

[Gunslinger08]

I've hit the rev limiter accidentally in my Mustang. Red line is 6k, limiter is around 6250.

 

[OrganizedChaos]

the speed limiter on my 92 explorer kicks in around 110 ish

the rev limiter in my zj kicks in at 5,300. not sure where the speed limiter is set.

 

[sonoma1993]

my 99 gmc sonoma 4.3L v6 governor is set at about 98mph.

 

[sniperruff]

yeah i hit the governor... george pataki. he was quite mad about it.

i sat in an M5 and it went beyond 125... and was climbing up FAST, so i think that has a limit of 155.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

did on my '90 accord, and '98 accord 4cyl. that was in texas- plenty of opportunity. have not had a chance with my 98 accord v6 out here in nova

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Whoaaaa, did some digging around, NissanClub.com sez my Altima has the governor at 145 MPH, because the tires are only rated to 149 MPH.

don't think I'll ever be hitting that

 

[Sphexi]

No idea if my old '90 Buick Skylark had one, but I got it up to 110-115 once on the highway at night, figured it just wouldn't go any faster than that ....I did have my '84 Toyota half-ton longbed (with a wooden bed no less) up past 95 once, and then stuff started rattling and something fell off o.o...not sure what, some sort of bracket, but I figured it was fast enough.

 

[A1CSpence]

I hit my Grand Prix's 108 Mph limiter on the autobahn.

 

[Tommouse]

My VW has a limiter set to 135. If you get your ECU flashed it gets removed though .

BTW - Most German cars are limited to 155mph.

 

[overst33r]

My corolla stops accelerating at about ~110 and i did not want to try more. My tires are rated up to 108.

 

[BobDaMenkey]

I took my dad's frontier to 95 where it limited once.

 

[EngenZerO]

anywhere from 145-157 on the g35 coupe...

i have only gotten my coupe up to 135 though... i pussed out then...

 

[DrPizza]

lmao.. this thread and the who is the worst driver thread...

 

[Aimster]

I went 160 in my friend's Z

I was praying and I never pray

 

[Insane3D]

Originally posted by: EngenZerO
anywhere from 145-157 on the g35 coupe...

i have only gotten my coupe up to 135 though... i pussed out then...

What year? Looks like they are limited to 142mph...

Originally posted by: Aimster
I went 160 in my friend's Z

I was praying and I never pray

You may have been close, but they are limited to 155mph. I hope that wasn't on a public road...

 

[BoomerD]

Not sure about all cars, but MOST BMW's can be "re-chipped" which will eliminate that "speed limiter", and allow you to go faster than the factory had you limited to. Of course, it also changes things like fuel mapping, timing, and several other critical engine parameters, and to get the maximum benefit from the performance boost that the chip is made for, you have to use premium gas.

 

[gsethi]

Originally posted by: EngenZerO
anywhere from 145-157 on the g35 coupe...

i have only gotten my coupe up to 135 though... i pussed out then...

It has to be more than 150 on the coupe. The sedan has 155mph (as told by the service technician when I took my sedan in for service). He was telling me on how one of his customers gave him a picture of the speedometer at ~155mph and he has that pic in his office.

 

[Black88GTA]

Originally posted by: BoomerD
Not sure about all cars, but MOST BMW's can be "re-chipped" which will eliminate that "speed limiter", and allow you to go faster than the factory had you limited to. Of course, it also changes things like fuel mapping, timing, and several other critical engine parameters, and to get the maximum benefit from the performance boost that the chip is made for, you have to use premium gas.

Yep...my BMW was limited at 155. I chipped it, and now it has no more limiter. I haven't been above 120 in it though.
Trans Am = no limiter. I got up to 140 in that car once, probably wouldn't do that again.

 

[shoRunner]

yep @ 149mph... in my gs400, i've hit the gov in all my cars if they had one. i mean you got to make sure it works, right?