Engine fails while old pork being tested. Owner sues journalist - who's right?

[Wayne]

From what I have read it seems he admitted to fluffing / missing a gearchange but once he found the insurance company was unwilling to help he tried to retract his admission.

I still think it is crazy that it was not running a rev limit, even if it restricted the test a little it would have been safer all round.

[mcgee9t2]

From what I have read it seems he admitted to fluffing / missing a gearchange but once he found the insurance company was unwilling to help he tried to retract his admission.

I still think it is crazy that it was not running a rev limit, even if it restricted the test a little it would have been safer all round.

+1 even if it was my own car, which noone else was going to drive and i knew revving it too high was going to make the gear box/engine sh!t its self therefore making me not want to go near those revs ide still have a limiter on there

[lewis1641]

a rev limiter wouldn't have helped in the event of a missed gear change necessarily

[Thom89]

a rev limiter wouldn't have helped in the event of a missed gear change necessarily

Correct, serious lack of understanding on this thread
A rev limiter, will only work on throttle RPM, and NOT the engine being overdriven, by either missing a gear, or for example, downshifting from 5th, into 2nd, this will "Buzz" an engine, and generally destroys the top end... or worse
All a rev limiter will do, is cut the ignition, at a set RPM, so the engine can't be over revved in normal driving/racing parameters

Thom

[JC]

a rev limiter wouldn't have helped in the event of a missed gear change necessarily

Correct, serious lack of understanding on this thread
A rev limiter, will only work on throttle RPM, and NOT the engine being overdriven, by either missing a gear, or for example, downshifting from 5th, into 2nd, this will "Buzz" an engine, and generally destroys the top end... or worse
All a rev limiter will do, is cut the ignition, at a set RPM, so the engine can't be over revved in normal driving/racing parameters

Thom

just this thread 

 

[Thom89]

a rev limiter wouldn't have helped in the event of a missed gear change necessarily

Correct, serious lack of understanding on this thread
A rev limiter, will only work on throttle RPM, and NOT the engine being overdriven, by either missing a gear, or for example, downshifting from 5th, into 2nd, this will "Buzz" an engine, and generally destroys the top end... or worse
All a rev limiter will do, is cut the ignition, at a set RPM, so the engine can't be over revved in normal driving/racing parameters

Thom

just this thread 

 

Just like my kids have selective hearing, I have selective thread reading

Thom

[JC]

a rev limiter wouldn't have helped in the event of a missed gear change necessarily

Correct, serious lack of understanding on this thread
A rev limiter, will only work on throttle RPM, and NOT the engine being overdriven, by either missing a gear, or for example, downshifting from 5th, into 2nd, this will "Buzz" an engine, and generally destroys the top end... or worse
All a rev limiter will do, is cut the ignition, at a set RPM, so the engine can't be over revved in normal driving/racing parameters

Thom

just this thread 

 

Just like my kids have selective hearing, I have selective thread reading

Thom

did someone say summat