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Re: Elizabeth's GT (Get Together)

To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Elizabeth's GT (Get Together)
From: "Larry & Sandi Miller" <millerls@ado13.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 13:36:52 -0700
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Reply-to: "Larry & Sandi Miller" <millerls@ado13.com>
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
" Most modern european cars have a rev limiter fitted so you put the pedal
to
> the metal and wait till the front end dives (limiter kicks in) and then
> shift.  The limiters are usually set at 6,800 or 7,000 or whatever.  The
> first time you do this (in a hire car) you think you have blown the engine
> but it's just the limiter.
>
> Daniel1312 - don't lift when you shift <g>"

The first time I hit the rev limiter in 3rd in my 911, I was passing on a
two lane road and there was an oncoming car. That was a thrill.

Larry Miller



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