Should you rev your engine in park or neutral?
If you do plan on revving your engine to show off a new exhaust system, the safest way to do so is while the car is in park. As mentioned, if you rev the engine while the car is in neutral, it can roll forward or backward.
What happens when you Rev the engine in neutral?
More common in continued over revving – the cylinder head & block doesn’t drain the oil at the same rate that oil is pumped out of the sump, leaving the sump empty, common in the Rover V8 engines. This is very common in engines that don’t have the minimum oil required.
Can a car go from Redline to Full Throttle in neutral?
So my question is, on a normal street car with a rev limiter and wet sump, can any excess wear occur from revving your engine to redline at full throttle in neutral that wouldn’t also happen if you took it to redline in 1st – 6th gear? It is indeed mostly a rumor, but with some background.
What should the idle speed be in neutral?
In Park or Neutral it idles up at 1500. But when I drop it into drive it goes all the way down to around 600. This seems like an excessive drop to me. I had to set the curb idle high so that when it went into gear it wouldn’t stall out.
What happens if you rev your car for 30 minutes?
Either way, both factors only offset the engine wear for very little, unless if you keep revving the car for 30 minutes then driving it for 5 miles a day. The car will seem to have a low mileage, but the engine will wear out much earlier than other comparable engines.
What happens to your car when you put it in neutral?
When I put the car in neutral, the car revs high sometimes increasing in rpms. Also when i left off the gas the car doesnt decrease in speed or rpms almost like the gas pedal is sticking. I revved the engine while in neutral a few times to try to see if I could get the rpms to drop but that didnt work.
Why does the RPM drop when I put the car in neutral?
Check the timing both in and out of gear. If the timing is falling way back in gear, that’s most of your problem. Usual culprit is a centrifugal and/or vacuum advance kicking in at idle. As soon as you throw it in gear it drops back, making the RPM drop worse than it would ordinarily be.
Why does my car go bad when I shift from Park to drive?
If the reving drops back to normal when you shift in neutral, you should do that before shifting in drive since shifting from park to drive while reving up the engine causes high stress on the transmission. I don’t think it’s the throttle sensor that is going bad since in drive the engine is not reving up.
In Park or Neutral it idles up at 1500. But when I drop it into drive it goes all the way down to around 600. This seems like an excessive drop to me. I had to set the curb idle high so that when it went into gear it wouldn’t stall out.