I was driving down a nice country road in the magna and decided to see what she'd do. I got to around 215kph and she wasn't picking up too fast by then and all of a sudden, the engine cut/missed momentarily. Is this an electronic speed-limiter?

i would say so

:stoopid:

it's about the right speed for it to kick in..

arnt all magnas bar the ralliart limited to 210?

Mine's not :D I definately have to poke 220 before it cuts out.

Mine's not :D I definately have to poke 220 before it cuts out.

yer, for some reason my OEM car didnt cut till 218. and the cruze control didnt work above 210 :confused:

but i can tell you a haltech isnt limited :badgrin:

arnt all magnas bar the ralliart limited to 210?
There's a difference between the auto and manual. Another reason to get a manual :badgrin:

ya its the cut out mines around 218 and its one hell of a cut out

myne stopped at 235... never again but :shock:

Geezus u guys r nuts!:nuts::badgrin:

ive got a video :P

Mine doesnt cut out, 230-5 and was still pulling hard

was still pulling hard
Dude this a car forum, keep this sorta adult stuff to the other forum you guys have lol :bowrofl: lol

hahahahah

also when the cut out kicks in it sends a message to the idiot police and they come out and stamp the words "bloody idiot" into your fore head like the old drink driving comercials if anyone can remember back that far

i hope you drove through a camera and no i dont appologise for the comments i just made incase any of you get offended by them :)

woahhhhhhhh you guys are all legends.

I will be removing my cutout ... if it ever cuts in ... ON THE TRACK. I have no hesitation doing 200+ on a circuit. The road is a different story of course.

200km/hour plus is perfectly legal where i fly, i mean drive :badgrin:


god bless the territory! :badgrin:

Not for long ... if Harold has his way!! ;)

Not for long ... if Harold has his way!! ;)


it will never pass.... speedlimitless for as long as i live in this hole!! :badgrin:

cruising down a deserted highway very late one night/morning i looked down and was surprised to see i was going 160km/h. so i thought id see what it would be like to hit 200.
Stock suspension, 205/65/15 retreads at the time. vowed NEVER to even attept that again until i had brand new suspension and brand new tyres.

I've got that now, but really dont see the point in seeing where my cutout is :redface:

also when the cut out kicks in it sends a message to the idiot police and they come out and stamp the words "bloody idiot" into your fore head like the old drink driving comercials if anyone can remember back that far

i hope you drove through a camera and no i dont appologise for the comments i just made incase any of you get offended by them :)

lol lol lol what ever

lol lol lol what ever

have a think about it, what if some little animal or something runs out in front of you, ofcourse at that sort of speed you wouldnt even think about swerving you would just let it hit you.. well thats a perfect world anyway, the reality is at that speed your mind would be going a million miles an hour and one little thing like a rabbit or soemthing running out onto the road could be enough to make you swerve, at that sort of speed my guess is you wont be recovering that swerve anytime soon and bang, your in a tree and tellin the good lord how you thought it was a good idea to be doin that speed.. but anyway you keep laughing

tooSlow - obviously removing the limiter for the track is perfectly good, i myself have seen the needle on the commodore i use to have go past the 200 mark on the track, the difference is thats a controlled environment, public road however is a completely un-predictable environment and one which you really should observe a sane speed limit, im not saying stick isactly to the speed limit, but atleast apply a little bit of common sense while your driving ay boys n girls??

I would be curious to see where a 1st gen cuts out, but i know that it would **** itself lol!

I would be curious to see where a 1st gen cuts out, but i know that it would **** itself lol!

i know of one that was cutting out at 70.. but it was also only running on 3 cylinders :P we had alot of fun in that car before it died :D

Im gonna have a spare after all my conversions, i might kill the bastard to find out :bowrofl:

when i had my tr, max i did was 19x
i didn't know that the tyres were rated only at about 160km/h. + pretty crap suspension.
thank god i never did it again.
was on my way back from sydney, long stretch and everything was clear.

all i have to say there isn't anything flash doing 200 km/h.
might be useful in the NT, but on normal roads you just gotta be nuts.
unless you drive a car that reaches 200 in 10 secs then it's understandable.

Surely everyone knows the consequences, you don't need to keep reminding everyone.

I hit that speed on a dead straight and empty stretch of the F3 freeway between syd and newcastle. I was slowed back down to 110 well before any car was in sight and before there were any corners.

And if an animal came out, well I'd have been screwed at 110 as well.

Plus I didn't post my speed as an ego measurement, it was there for information's sake.

I would be curious to see where a 1st gen cuts out, but i know that it would **** itself lol!
They don't have a cutout. Aerodynamics limit the speed to 170-80km/h.
The testing area was the Mornington Peninsula Freeway, on the straight between the B110, and Lonsdale St.

Though, when I first got it, 90km/h was a struggle...

looks like you know most country roads well, even including numbers and all!!!!

FREAK!!!!

Surely everyone knows the consequences, you don't need to keep reminding everyone.

I hit that speed on a dead straight and empty stretch of the F3 freeway between syd and newcastle. I was slowed back down to 110 well before any car was in sight and before there were any corners.

And if an animal came out, well I'd have been screwed at 110 as well.

Plus I didn't post my speed as an ego measurement, it was there for information's sake.

ok then.

Guys just remember that at over 150kph the speedo readout isn't very accurate, and at 200+ :confused: lol

have a think about it, what if some little animal or something runs out in front of you, ofcourse at that sort of speed you wouldnt even think about swerving you would just let it hit you.. well thats a perfect world anyway, the reality is at that speed your mind would be going a million miles an hour and one little thing like a rabbit or soemthing running out onto the road could be enough to make you swerve, at that sort of speed my guess is you wont be recovering that swerve anytime soon and bang, your in a tree and tellin the good lord how you thought it was a good idea to be doin that speed.. but anyway you keep laughing

tooSlow - obviously removing the limiter for the track is perfectly good, i myself have seen the needle on the commodore i use to have go past the 200 mark on the track, the difference is thats a controlled environment, public road however is a completely un-predictable environment and one which you really should observe a sane speed limit, im not saying stick isactly to the speed limit, but atleast apply a little bit of common sense while your driving ay boys n girls??


I always assumed that bathurst was a controled enviroment... But didnt a kangaroo happen to get hit on the hill... :P :shock:

the difference is thats a controlled environment

Yup I think Jim Richards is of the opinion a race track is as uncontrolled as anywhere ... ;) at least now he is anyway.

your drawing a bit of a long bow fellahs.. for a start a V8 supercar can withstand a 200km/h+ accident (see brighty at indy for example) yet a normal car certainly can not.. secondly its unlikely that a little kid is going to run out onto the track chasing his soccer ball, whereas that is a very realy possibility on the road.

anyway, who really cares, its your car and your life, just as long as you dont hit me! :P

RJ, you have to realise that people will do all sortsa ****. Hopefully they learn b4 they do any damage ... crikey ... people have known smoking is bad for you for ages ... yet people still smoke, and they still smoke around others (damaging the innocents).

I would just let it go :)

my GDI has a cut out at 180 because of some safety thing for the engine but when its up there which i did while at the track testing the fleet rental cars it was only reving 4800 revs which is not to much.
to tell the honest truth the cars we were testing were the fleet cars for saftey and renting compatability and my three liter GDI ran to its 180 quite alot faster then even the VR-X did which really suprissed me.

RJ, you have to realise that people will do all sortsa ****. Hopefully they learn b4 they do any damage ... crikey ... people have known smoking is bad for you for ages ... yet people still smoke, and they still smoke around others (damaging the innocents).

I would just let it go :)

mate your right and i guess i over react sometimes, but i have let it go. As i said in my last post

"anyway, who really cares, its your car and your life, just as long as you dont hit me! "

Opened up a can of worms there hey! Thanks guys for clarifying that it was a cutout and not my engine having heart palpitations. btw the road had clear views with paddocks for kilometres either side of the road, no farm wildlife or roos around. I have hit a cat on the hwy at 120 and it didn't do anything (except die of course!).

At that speed, with that level of concentration, there is no way in hell i'd be swerving for any rabbit/bandicoot or cat that jumped in front of the car. RJL25 I understand where you're coming from and that's why these kind of things are only done where I know there will be no other cars/people within cooee of me so if things do go pear-shaped, I am the only one to wear the consequences. Long live Tassie roads!

My TJ Auto, in Drive shifts from 3rd to 4th at 215. Then limiter cuts in at 220.

Road conditions similar to Magnion.

my GDI has a cut out at 180 because of some safety thing for the engine but when its up there which i did while at the track testing the fleet rental cars it was only reving 4800 revs which is not to much.
to tell the honest truth the cars we were testing were the fleet cars for saftey and renting compatability and my three liter GDI ran to its 180 quite alot faster then even the VR-X did which really suprissed me.
Japanese Domestic's are limited to 180km/h.


secondly its unlikely that a little kid is going to run out onto the track chasing his soccer ball, whereas that is a very realy possibility on the road.

On a freeway?

Japanese Domestic's are limited to 180km/h.


On a freeway?

no on a freeway you'll just get animals, if your not expecting it you just may swerve and not be able to control it. As i said before which i dont really care to go over again, never assume something is safe, highways are not a controlled environment.

haha, yeah, race tracks are real controlled environments.... i see enough people doing 50km/h on normal roads that are ****ed in the head! let alone 30 odd maniacs doing 200km/h+, in cars that have tires made to last the life of the race (no more, sometimes less) with engines that will easily overpower the grip, pushing it to the limit on every corner......... yep.... reeeaaallll controlled!! (and thats before the roos or bits of cars pop out)
(granted they do have a pretty good roll cage!)

as for animals... the only two i've seen doing anywhere near those speeds.... one spotted quall and also a wallaby i was able to stop (or close too) before getting close to endangering them.... i do practice safe driving however in which i slow down when i can't see whats in front of me (or if there are chances of things 'popping' out!), i might be a little crazy, but i'm not stupid!!! (*cough* buying retreads (bad enough as it is) and then testing how fast they'll go!!!)

anyway, back to the topic.... 210km/h is the cutout in most family magnas... but its got to have some errors (exact tire sizes etc)...

if you change your ECU at all (even piggybacks) you can get around the limiter

Swiggs, being a Jap home market car it will be limited to 180km/h by Jap legislation, as is for all imported cars

Oh, And RJL25.... a football did go bouncing around on the track at bathurst (i saw the damn thing!!)... luckily there was no kid chasing it!