Harm at 6000 r.p.m.???

[bimmerboi18]

Ok, so I drive hard sometimes, and my cars full power comes in just below 6000 rpm. When I am in a hurry, or accelerating, I sometimes rev to almost 6000 rpm. If I maintain my car, and take care of it, does taking it to high rpm do damage?? Just curious. I havent had any probs outta my car. I make sure that i dont take it over 3500 rpm until it is in the middle of the temp gauge. Any comments on this??

[mattyb]

unable to give professional mechanical advice however it sounds like thats how it should be bloody well driven every now and again. i do with mine, gotta get the cobwebs out and all.

[Qube]

When I had the stock chip, it would barely move until it hit ~4000 RPM. Now that it's sharked, it'll pull from as little as 2500... But I know how you feel

[Jeff N.]

Short of increased engine wear, doesn't hurt anything.

[bimmerboi18]

Short of increased engine wear, doesn't hurt anything.

How much wear are we talking here. Like 20,000 miles reduction in life?

[winfred]

that's almost impossible to gauge, the better the oil the less dammage is done

How much wear are we talking here. Like 20,000 miles reduction in life?

[Jeff N.]

Here's at least one discussion of the impact of high RPM on an engine. I'm sure you can find more.

Start here...

http://www.metricmechanic.com/pg79.htm

then go back to here to get the next pages in the article..

http://www.metricmechanic.com/tabcon.html

[digitaldragon03]

What about in an automatic tranmission? I heard somewhere that high revs hurt our crappy transmission or something?

[infinity5]

i'm sure they can. my tranny is going to disenigrate soon, i'm sure. but that;ll jsut be an excuse to do an MT conversion, so no worries.

[digitaldragon03]

I knew about nikasil, but never knew about the crap transmission when i bought the car. I should keep away from S4 now.