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I was talking to my buddy who is a service writer at a toyota dealership and he said the marix and celica with the so called hi performance 1.8l were coming in alot with damaged valves due to over reving and he was telling me that they can read how high the engine was reved how fast the car was going and what the engine temp was and he said that they weren't fixing alot of them??? i wonder if GM is doing the same or what he said that if they do repair these cars and thier is some head damage or what ever they usually just replace the whole motor because it is not cost effective to repair?Makes me kind of nervous owning one of these? motors that seem to be on the edge.

How can you over rev with a rev limiter? It wont allow you to rev past the cars red line, unless you remove the rev limiter, then I can understand why they wont fix them under warranty.

ok hold it at the rev lim. and see if it messes any thing up? I won't do it? It is just what he said????? He is going to have my gov. removed too

You can always down shift, deliberately or otherwise. I reported elsewhwere about a horror case a GM rep related: Some test pilot ran a GT demonstrator up through the gears but after 5th, found first instead of 6th! The clutch/flywheel exploded and the shrapnel wrote off the car. Don't know if the clutch blew before it draggged the engine up to 15,000 RPM or so...