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SinceByMan
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do automatics have a speed limiter? yesterday I drove my car way past 110, like to the tripmeter, and I thought 5 speeds had speed limiters but why dont automatics?


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nismofly
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nope, ive heard places that it doesnt and theres a way to get the non-speed limter ability from the auto and put it on a 5 speed

Florida240sx
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If I can go borrow my my's 93 vert I could tell a, but she's fixin to blow it up

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TachyonS14
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To my knowledge auto ecu's have no speed limiter.

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bcar240
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TachyonS14 wrote:To my knowledge auto ecu's have no speed limiter.
Yep, autos don't have one. Many people swap an auto ECU into a 5-speed to bypass the limiter. In DE engines you can just cut a single wire at the ECU to accomplish this, but in CA cars I believe it throws a code.

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nismofly
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so its the whole ecu? i thought it was just part of it, or something else altogther, but now that you mention it i think i do remember it


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