Next time, Whip around the corner in 2nd gear.

 

Could also have been due to fuel starvation if your tank was below the 1/4 mark...

l8r)

 

Just because the Evo is race "inspired" doesnt mean....ah nevermind, now I know why the Evo was raised another point on the insurance scale

 

Haha! True!

Sounds like fuel cut to me, but I'm no expert. I'd say, don't do it again and it won't happen again, simple. Especially in the rain!

 

The stock rev limiter is 7600rpm on all years.

The fuel starvation was something I was going to suggest, but that's why I asked if this power loss occurred after he was straight or not, because the fuel sloshing would only come into play while "whipping around."

If you hit the rev limiter, you'd know it, because it would pop really loud and fast.

 

My car is bone stock with 4500 miles on it, and it was never launched and I have yet to smell clutch ever. Some poeple on this forum really suprise me, they act like you should drive an evo like 1995 cavalier. The car is meant to be driven hard. Granted shifting into second would be nice but it's not that I forgot but the rpm's jumped up there so quickly that I wasn't quick enough. What I do in my car is my own business and no I wasn't in a parking lot. I was on a familar road going to my house at 3am turning onto a four lane road with no median. I couldn't hit anything if I even tried to loose control. For all of you *****ing that I should do that in the rain, do you park you car and not drive it in the rain? Is it going to melt? I'm not going to crash my car I know what I'm doing but at the same time i'm not pushing the limits. Yeah there are people out there who do stupid $hit but i'm not one of them. I'm not a newbie either because I formally owned 2 modified dsm's. What I am new to is awd and driving an evo likea grandma should be a crime. I just want to know what the car can and can't do in a stock format because i'm not going to modify it for awhile. The car isn't even that fast but I didn't buy it for speed I bought it for all around performance.

 

Well it definitely wasn't rev limiter. I've hit rev limiter a few times in my 1995 tsi. I know it wasn't the fuel sloshing because I just filled up the tank and it happened on the striaght away. The only thing I can think of is fuel cut or the fact that even at that high of rpm's the car does not build anymore power. That's why it's pretty much pointless to shift so high on a stock evo w/o a reflash. I expereinced this feeling in my tsi only twice when I was doing high speed pulls on the highway in 4th and then i'd pay too much attention to my speedo than my tach and i'd shift late into 5th but my car would feel like it would loose power or just ran out of breathe at the end of 4th. It wasn't violent, it was a sudden feeling that the car was not pulling as hard.

 

Well, you definitely didn't hit fuel cut in 1st.

From this latest explanation, I hope you didn't start this thread just because your car ran out of breath/power due to being at high rpm in 1st. You made it sound like some big problem, but now it sounds like you've just never revved that high and don't know how it feels when the power drops off like is indicated on an Evo dynograph (especially stock ones). Is that all this is...you aren't used to the feeling of the turbo running out of breath at high rpm?

 

Maybe the revs dropped too far and you nearly stalled out?

 

Say what...the revs didn't drop...he was accelerating hard.

 

That's really all I was asking. It was to subtle to be fuel cut and too quite to be the rev limiter. It was just strange because I know our turbo's do run out of breathe at high rpm's but I didn't think it was that noticable where the car just said ok I have no more left in me, because that's what it felt like. Anyways that's all I was asking pretty much and the ironic thing is that it took two pages of bull$hit responses from other members to get the right one and looking back the only repsonses that were on track were Warrtalon's. Thanks Warrtalon! Man do I wish these forums were more like the dsm forum's. There was less BS on those and 95% you got an answer instead of some idiot wasting space. I think the problem on these forum's is that there are way too many 18-19 year old who's mommy and daddy bought them an evo and think they are coolest kid on the block.

 

 

If you were in first only, it sounds like you ran out of gear (too fast for 1st gear, It tops at up to 7800rpm at 44.572 MPH) and should have shifted to 2nd. That's if I am understanding what you are saying. If you run too fast in first gear, the car will feel like it is running out of breath at the top of first gear when you don't shift to second. This goes for all gear's as well. You can damage your gear box like that.

 

Btw, 1st goes about as high as 40...

 

Yeah I know, I saw that after I posted and was too lazy to go back and edit it for the 3rd time. I was in a hurry and on my out the door

But I guess I will fix it now.