Rev Limiter on your bike (Fz6's only please)

[jazzpaintball]

Just curious due to another thread.

 

[GeneM]

Do you mean where does it red line at on the REVOMETER or can one set it themselves?

 

[greg]

to be honest i've never looked at the tachometer when i'm bouncing it off the limiter!

 

[jazzpaintball]

Do you mean where does it red line at on the REVOMETER or can one set it themselves?

No, what I mean is at what RPM does the rev-limiter kick in. Whether that be before the red-line, or at the very top. Especially for us with the earlier model FZ6's, it may help to select the display to the rpm mode since the digital tachometer can be a bit hard to precisely read.

 

[texcollect]

To be 100% honest the 1 time I (accidentally) found the limiter my eyes were not looking at the rev counter. Also I don't believe it is possible to change the rev limiter, but if it is I might drop it to 12K so that it matches my buddy's FZ6R

 

[The Toecutter]

To be 100% honest the 1 time I (accidentally) found the limiter my eyes were not looking at the rev counter. Also I don't believe it is possible to change the rev limiter, but if it is I might drop it to 12K so that it matches my buddy's FZ6R

Why would you want to lose power on purpose? :spank: I must have some reasoning with this statement I am completly baffled.......

 

[Marthy]

To be 100% honest the 1 time I (accidentally) found the limiter my eyes were not looking at the rev counter. Also I don't believe it is possible to change the rev limiter, but if it is I might drop it to 12K so that it matches my buddy's FZ6R

On a bone stock 6R there's nothing pass 10K. Exhaust and PCV help things out a bit but still not enough to be on the juice all the way to 12500!

But with the FZ6 cams it's a different story. HP peak at 10200 and pull strong from 9K-12K and didn't lost any of the sweet mid range. Just got done with my airbox mod... That was the last thing I had to mod to work all together with cams and exhaust. If it all work as plan I should be getting very close to a bone stock FZ6. Dyno will tell...:rockon:

 

[DefyInertia]

Pretty sure it is 14.5 from the factory (or is it 14 flat?)...if that is what you are asking. I didn't google it to confirm though...

 

[pookamatic]

to be honest i've never looked at the tachometer when i'm bouncing it off the limiter!

Yea - I'll second this!

 

[texcollect]

Why would you want to lose power on purpose? :spank: I must have some reasoning with this statement I am completly baffled.......

I thought the was enough, but I guess I should have tagged it thus.

<Sarcasm> I might drop it to 12K so that it matches my buddy's FZ6R </Sarcasm>

 

[mave2911]

One of the things they do when you get your ECU reflashed is raise the rev limit.

Please note, the OP isn't asking where the pretty red lines are on the tach (redline), but where the bike hits the limiter. (goes nah nah nah nah etc)

At what point, preferably in gear, does it rev and go no higher.

There is possibly a difference between the S1 (at 12500rpm) and the S2 (at 14500rpm) that the OP is trying to ascertain.

Cheers,
Rick

 

[FinalImpact]

Usually over the bars keeping the nose down and not looking. . . Well until I hear her misfitting and then shift. :spank:

IIRC its as marked @14.5

 

[ChevyFazer]

One of the things they do when you get your ECU reflashed is raise the rev limit.

Please note, the OP isn't asking where the pretty red lines are on the tach (redline), but where the bike hits the limiter. (goes nah nah nah nah etc)

At what point, preferably in gear, does it rev and go no higher.

There is possibly a difference between the S1 (at 12500rpm) and the S2 (at 14500rpm) that the OP is trying to ascertain.

Cheers,
Rick

I gots a S1 and it goes tas 14.5k eh

I think of there is any actual difference its going to be in the restricted models that are not available in the states

 

[Guitar Man]

I've never hit the rev limiter on my 09. I did on my 07, but I can't remember where it was. Too busy paying attention to the road. I was in 5th and hit it and just automatically shifted to 6th one time.

 

[fb40dash5]

I think I hit it once. Like everyone else, I'm not looking at the tach when I'm doing it... IIRC I was doing 60+mph in 1st when I did it. I sure ain't trying to read the little numbers on the actual readout (not the tach) to get an accurate number.

 

[Olas]

2007 FZ6 here and my rev limiter didn't kick in until ~14.5k rpms. Tested it just a couple of days ago.

 

[greg]

Just tested mine on the way home. Was 13700, when i looked down but was probably more like 14k as i might have eased off slightly. Mine's a 2006 s1 European model

 

[Andz]

No idea to be honest, mine has only hit the rev limiter twice in 8 and a half years and both times it was in top gear on a dyno.

 

[ChevyFazer]

none of yall have ever pulled in the clutch or had the bike in neutral and went WOT to hear the bike bounce off the limiter?

i have :ban::spank::ban::spank::ban::spank:

 

[red_rock_beetle]

scariest thing is when you have the front wheel up and hit the limiter:ban::spank: