What does your Mk3 2.0L 8V rev to?

[Steveo_40]

Just wondering if its normal for my Mk3 2.0L 8V to hard rev limit at 5000rpm? The dash goes further. You'll see in my last post about my starting problem. Could you all let me know what your mk3 2.0L limits at, and what your distributor is? Maybe even a picture or part number?

Thanks heaps for your help guys.

[Water Boy]

Pretty sure all 4 cyclinder Mk3's have a limiter of 5000rpm. Not point really going over about 4300 any ways.

[brad]

mine was about 5500-5800 IIRC (AGG engine). Never bothered to go there much as it was nicer to just use the torque of the little beasty.

[Steveo_40]

Yer mine is AGG, its not that I want to use it, I was more just interested in why it was. I'm not right next to my car atm, but im sure the "red line" on my dash is up around the 6 - 7000 rpm.

[Peter Jones]

Seen over 8K on mine, but that's with 40mm Dellortos and a MK2 electronic dizzy.

[whiteVR6]

If your hitting rev limiter below 6500 then you need to adjust the timing.

[ffoff]

Mines an ADY and stops moving once I hit about 5000rpm. It's useless at that range though so there's not much point revving past about 4500rpm or so..

[gldgti]

Yeah 6500 sounds about right. Hell, even my diesel rev's past 5000

[Water Boy]

Checked today a few times hard limit in my CL (ADZ) is 5800rpm.

[Steveo_40]

Thanks for the replies. If I get mine started again I'll check the timing out. I knew they should do more than 5.

[madglf3]

My old 2e could definitely rev past 5, i think 6-something was it, but like others have said, it really didn't prove very useful
Doing so.

[76bug]

my AGG will rev to 6500 no problems, although power does tail off after 4500 but that will change in the coming months

[ffoff]

so because my car definitely does not rev past 5000rpm, what should I do to fix it? and will it make things better in the rev range I normally drive in (upto 4000)? or is it not worth the effort since its pointless to rev above 4300?

[WA Euro]

if your car won't rev out to the indicated redline on the dash then either the ignition timing is out, or there is a fault with the Hall sender in the distributor.

the computer can only compensate for a few degrees of advance and retard. If the computer does not have the range to stop the knocking from incorrect timing, then it will limit the engine revs to 4500/5000.

This safety mode is the same also if the computer sees a fault with the hall sender.