i've been lookin every where to find out if my 99 6 cyl is governd but i cant find ne info can ne 1 tell me and if it is what is it set at

 

i think its at 114, due to the speed rating of the factory tires, however you couls always go out to a country road and see how fast it goes....just be careful

 

Uhhhh....what?

Yup, you do have a gov. Don't remember what it is though. I got rid of mine a long time ago.

 

thanks guys

 

Its set at 118mph. It gets up to about 110 pretty good but the last 8mph takes a while. Plus it wobbles a lot I didn't like the feeling of it, I think its the suspension. Be sure to use the fast lane.

 

importkiller how fast did you get your car up to after you took out the gov.

 

that is interesting... i know that my car when revved in park... chops out so it is governed on that .... but i was goin up the NY Throughway at midnight one night... i burried the speedo at 120 and still picked up some speed.. dunno how much more but i was over 118 though.........

1996 3.8 auto

 

i read that the fuel shut off is 6000 RPMs and thats probably why it shuts down but i dunno about the speed thing

 

The stock programming of the PCM limits the car's speed to 118 mph due to the speed rating of the stock tires. You might be able to go a little faster downhill though

 

That is true, that is to keep the engine from blowing up. The speed "thing" is set due to tire ratings. The guy saying he went over 118 was probably going down hill.

 

i wasnt going downhill....
if they are governed at 118... umm speedo only goes to 120 so maybe that is all i was doing.... as for the rating of the tires.. that sucks that they govern the car at the rate of stock tires from the factory.....

I got 35k miles out of my Junk Year Eagles..... then i put on Cooper Cobra GT II's and went from 35k to 115k... 80k miles out of them, never rotated, driven 100 miles per day at 73mph.....

 

they do it so people dont surpass the speed rating of the tires, which could cause a blow out.......then a lawsuit

 

I wouldn't even try going that fast until you got higher speed rated tires, and are sure that you are good enough to handle high speeds. I don't personnally see the point in toping out, but whatever you want its your car.

 

i have maxed out every car that i have owned once..... just to see....


but in this incidence... a guy was tailgateing (sp?) at midnight with no one else on the road... so i was only doing 70mph until i got annoyed and wanted to see what he would do....... he kept up for a bit... but think he to me........

 

LOL, I have had that happen to me a few times. I slow down until they switch lanes then I gun it back to whatever speed I was doing.