Max RPM

[David in TN]

Yesterday I was traveling from mid-Tennessee to southern Illinois.

While going up a hill and traffic being rather obnoxious, I decided that the time was right to check out the who RPM situation. I floored it. Speed quickly accelerated the two-tone beast which had my wife and I along with a fair amount of luggage. It reached mid-90s going uphill quite easily.

I had been driving in HV as my trip was about 200 miles, so the engine was warm. This was about halfway into the trip.

I forget to look at the ScanGauge yesterday, but here is the result of the experiment.

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[insightman]

It reached mid-90s going uphill quite easily

Did it sound "angry?"

 

[David in TN]

Did it sound "angry?"

Actually it didn't. It sounded more like a traditional Honda engine running at high RPM.

"Angry" sound tends to occur between 2500-4000. It seems to settle down after that.

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[craze1cars]

Expected. Honda always claimed max Hp rpm output for this engine was at 5500. Which means they probably set the electronic governor just ever so slightly past that, at 5600, to ensure engine damage could never occur.

And I Love the fact that someone feels angry bees occurs a couple thousand rpm LOWER than the safe rpm max...just proving how incredibly subjective the whole angry bees thing is, among those who do not have a method of measuring exact rpm.

Thanks for sharing the data...