speed limiter

hey boys and girls!!
...i got a mate that has a Evo 3....he really wants to c what the top end speed would be for his Evo....but the problem is he doesnt know how to take the speed limiter off !!..
so ya ....does any anyone here have any tips on how to take it off !!

cheers !!!

i could guess it would be fast? Isn't it something dealing with the ecu, since the govenor is a program, no?

for the record, i just want to say that foreign guys talk very sexy lol. ok i am done now. hehe :D

Whooooah...it's called a governor...

I'm not sure...it's usually like a...lever type thing...ahhh shit...i don't know...just look up governor for evo3...

I don't think they have governors on them man...

Cause governors are on School buses and what not...not on sports cars

What does a speed limiter do?

it depends what country you live in, in the US the governor kicks in at about 120 and i think its higher in most countries and im not even sure there is a governor for japanese cars. An ECU computer upgrade from JET performance or neuspeed will take care of that problem and add some decent horsepower.

and about how much would that cost?

Originally posted by Ralliart
it depends what country you live in, in the US the governor kicks in at about 120 and i think its higher in most countries and im not even sure there is a governor for japanese cars. An ECU computer upgrade from JET performance or neuspeed will take care of that problem and add some decent horsepower.

Some foreign cars actually make it over here w/o the governor.

I know a lot of people w/ Celicas and Eclipses w/o governors.

Hell...my '91 Probe LX didn't have one on it :)

Hooby

Originally posted by evochica
for the record, i just want to say that foreign guys talk very sexy lol. ok i am done now. hehe :D

is it ???....how did u know i am a foreign guy ??....hehehe..well i am, english is not my first lang !

well most american guys dont say "mates" and "cheers." hehe so that was my first clue. i just think its cute because i dont know anyone who talks like that. i am from new jersey. everyone here talks like they are from new yawk or new joise. i hope i didnt embarass you :) where are you from and what is your first language? the only other language i know is french and the only things i know how to say are completely assinine like je vais a la gare. (i am going to the train station) or j'adore la frommage (i love cheese) how is that going to help me if i ever go to france??!!

hooby- how do you know if your car has a governor or not? i want to see if my eclipse has one...

Go REEEALLY fast...if your car doesn't start slowin down for no apprent reason, you don't have a governor.

Usually the governor is somewhere near 120.

I used to be able to get my needle on the Probe buried past the MPH sign and close to 0 :D

Hooby

Yes, go really fast on a long open road, when you get near 120, get ready, ur car will top out when it sounds as thou ur in 2nd gear and u missed shift but still have ur foot on the gas. It will just go up...hit like a rev...then start going down slowly for about 5mph until the gas kicks back in and u go back up.

by the way...thats impossible hobby, the needle has a stop point about 5mph after the last reading...unless ur gauge is broken.

The govener is a built in computer programm in the cars CPU that tells the EFI or Carburator to close on a car and stop pumping gas. When the govener kicks in you'll know it, the car will lunge or pop and then slow down. You can push the accelerator pedal all you want but it won't do anything until it is below governed speed by like 5 or 10 mph. The only way around the govener is to completely remap and rebuild your CPU. That is what I've been told.
The govener is set at the factory and wiill be different for most cars.
Grand ams are goverened at 115 mph.
Neons are goverened at 119 mph.
Focuses are goverened at 107 mph, atleast the 2000 I rented.
Chevy Malibu's are governed at 112 mph or so, hard to get deffineted cause of the speraticness of the needle in the one I rented.
Eclipse's (Gen 1's) aren't goverened, never once hit the govener and had the car to 140 mph. Took less time then the Lancer, thats for sure.
I have not hit the govener on my Lancer either. Ive had the needle at 130 mph. It still looks like it has room to move too.

Originally posted by Ralliart
Yes, go really fast on a long open road, when you get near 120, get ready, ur car will top out when it sounds as thou ur in 2nd gear and u missed shift but still have ur foot on the gas. It will just go up...hit like a rev...then start going down slowly for about 5mph until the gas kicks back in and u go back up.

by the way...thats impossible hobby, the needle has a stop point about 5mph after the last reading...unless ur gauge is broken.

It wasn't broken....I wondered about that at first too. I had one of my friends cruise beside and make sure that I was still speeding up, and I was.

you dont need to remap or rebuild your ecu or your cpu, just go buy a neuspeed ship or a jet chip which takes the governor off and adds hp with crisp throttle responses and a free rev limit. Dont waste your time with rebuilding when you dont know how.

Hooby...you may be going faster but the needle on your speedometer will not keep going, it will stop....how old is ur car?

All I'm sayin is.....it was right in front of my face....the needle kept movin :)

It was (RIP) a '91

All you have to do is to add another speed meter. I had one fitted - one of the small led type. Apparently the ECU cut-off is based on the reading from the speedmeter and if you bypass this to make your aftermarket speedmeter the primary meter, the ECU doesn't cut-off. Your current speedmeter still works though.
For japan spec evos or any car for the matter, the cut-off is set at 180kmh