Quick question.
Car has 25k on it. Bone stock. Oil change 3 days ago.

Decided to open up my car a little bit tonight on my way home from the gym.
Was babying it in second gear and then BAM! WOT. I havent driven my car hard in a while and wanted to remember how fast it is again. And boy... did she take off. Such a saahweet feeling.

Anyways, its pretty dark outside and im paying attention to the road in front me of me. I glance down and see that im at 7,600rpm in 2nd gear. I pretty much forgot to shift, and only noticed this when the fuel cut off kicked in.
I shift into 3rd and slow down.

Then I babied her home...but something felt weird. The car felt flat on the way home. In retrospect, i was redlining for what seemed like 2-3 seconds in 2nd gear. Now im worried i effed something up.

Did a few WOT pulls again and definitely noticed a power lag. It still spooled, but the car didnt feel as fast as it did 2 minutes prior.

I know its summer, but it was like 64 deg outside. So i rule out temp.
Checked the hose by dipstick... all good.

I know the rev limiter is there to prevent idiots like me from ruining the car.
Here are my questions:
1)Any possible damage from redlining the car for a few seconds?
2)Am i paranoid? Please help. Now im mad at myself for going WOT and not paying attention to my shifting.
3)Any of you ever floor the gas pedal and shift ONLY after you realize that you have been riding the fuel cut-off for like 3 seconds?

...sorry for the long post.

p.s. car sounds normal. Didnt see anything under the hood. (Its dark outside)
Cooling fan was on for a long time as the car cooled off in my driveway. (waaaay to long. Like 50 seconds)

 

I'm sure its fine.. You prolly worked yourself up and your mind was playing tricks on you.. Its still possible to do damage riding the limiter but you'd know if you did any damage.. Damage from over revving can be pretty extensive..

 

ECU probably pulled timing for overrev. Disconnect your battery for 10min and then plug her back in.

 

The fuel cut is there for a reason, your engine should be fine.

 

This. You're fine. I have an aftermarket turbo, a higher rev limit, and am pushing a lot more boost up top than you are. The engine is square, and yours is stock. Put it out of your mind and enjoy your car!

It actually doesn't work like that at all. If it needs to pull timing up top, it will locally in the problem area during the event. Resetting the ECU is just going to take him out of OBD readiness mode and force the car to relearn some things. What happens on the rev limiter won't effect the tune in the lower ranges whatsoever.

 

This.

Not a big deal. You are just being paranoid and you mind is messing with you. A stock Evo isn't really that fast, so the first time you thought it was crazy fast and when you really start paying closer attention to the power, it will be alot slower in your mind..

 

Not a big deal. As for the rev limit. I had mine changed to 7800rpm and i bounce off it a few times during time attack. Here was a video of one of the runs i did. I forgot to turn the traction control off during the first session so when i got on the back stretch i turned it off. Wasnt paying attention and hit the rev limit.

 

You and ur baby X should both be COMPLETElY fine, Bro!
I redlined it and broke the limiter/ran till the fuel cut-off all the time on my 2nd Gear during Auto-cross, most of time when trying to get my best passing the finish line (no time/need **** to the 3rd gear). No need to mention my MR even has a crystal weak SST tranny lol.
Free ur own mind and enjoy ur car. Evo should be bought to run fast (no street racing tho, bro =P)!

 

Just take your car to the dyno for peace of mind.

 

The OP didn't mention a CEL (aka SES), so I'm not sure what this is supposed to accomplish.

Are you sure that that was traction control and not the two-step.

 

lol you are fine. just you being paranoid.

 

It was early morning and I figured it may have pulled timing in the map and probably put it in limp mode and should have to be reset by allowing it to relearn. Now that I read what I typed I wondered myself why I even said that. Forget everything I said earlier. I'm not sure what I was thinking.

 

No problem. Thanks for posting what you did.

 

It's all good, man! We all learn stuff from each other. I learn new things every day.

You probably already know this, but the timing is dynamic. There are hundreds of possibilities for degrees of advance depending on load and RPM.

 

Yup. It's a headache for us guys in the higher altitudes, too. I still can't figure it out, but luckily there are a bunch of guys here who already figured it out since they've been here for a long time/all their lives. They come in handy