zbo

took my tc up tilden today, mountain roads with spectacular view of bay area. looked at header after going up mountain, orange red from full throttle nearly all the way up, bumping rev limiter on shifts all the way up. on the way down, faded out front brakes toward the bottom of hill because of left foot braking through turns too much. these pads smell soooooo bad when the smoke, must be ceramic, and rotors become orange, but it's really hard to make them smoke. accidently misshifted to early to 2nd once and caught 7k rpm deccelerating at 60 mph, but no biggy, im sure the rev limit is plenty conservative for occasional MILD over revs (nothing past 7.5k) I'm going to bleed out the brake fluid tomorow with synthetic dot 3. it's got 15k miles on it now, going to flush power steering fluid with synthetic fluid and manual transmission with redline mt 90, but I'll still use regular motor oil cuz its got more than enough protection.

mr_lore

damn.

Kurenai

I think you have to take them to the dealer to be bled. Theres some other way, I think they call it powerbleeding and the traditional way wont work. Just saying, so dont flame me if you already knew this.

GeeReg

FYI, the rev limiter won't stop the engine from mechanical over-revs (e.g. downshifting too soon)

engifineer

You should not be "left foot braking" through turns... not picking at you, just some advice. If at all possible you should be braking in a straight line and accelerating through turns. Braking through a hard corner is a sure way to end up ___ forward

jchen

let's go driving some time. i also live in the bay area. we can either do calaveras or mt. hamilton

manning

left foot breaking is GREAT.. notice it's teh LEFT foot, he's not changing momentum of the car becuase he is still on the gas....

this is a BIG hit with autox cars setup for street use with larger turbo's as your able to keep spooled though the low speed corners

Otsego_Undead

ok, so im totally ignorant. why would you brake with your left foot?

xnevergiveinx

well, just more proof that toyota makes some reliable engines.

Ericc

You can do this with any engine once and prolly not destroy it.
Try doing this everyday for a real test.

harrisch

i highly doubt the brakes are ceramic....

aarontrini85

i can vouch for this as i miss shifted once and hit 8523 or some thing close to there my rsm has it stored if any one wants real numbers joe@dezod or what ever the screen name is did the same thing to his tc and it is just fine also

aarontrini85

ok i got the actual numbers off my rsm it was reved to 8725 close to what i posted and also verry verry scary but the car still runs fine. i relay want to pull it apart and check the bearings but i dont have the time and this is my daily driver so i dont have another ride either lol