[Guest]

i just bought an mkiv, and this one guy who used to work on my car before i had it said i can redline up to 8k...but he worked on it about 3 years ago...now can i try and rev my car up to 8k? if i hit a rev limiter, is that real bad for my car? especially the turbo? i wanna find out if i can really redline at 8k, i just want to be safe, that's why im asking you guys...

 

[gritsak]

ive hit the stock rev limiter plenty of times, no problems

 

[Guest]

i just bought an mkiv, and this one guy who used to work on my car before i had it said i can redline up to 8k...but he worked on it about 3 years ago...now can i try and rev my car up to 8k? if i hit a rev limiter, is that real bad for my car? especially the turbo? i wanna find out if i can really redline at 8k, i just want to be safe, that's why im asking you guys...

Are you on stock twins? If you are, then there is not much of a point going that high with the revs.. Personally, I think the stock twins would have about maxed out at the redline.