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Jul 3, 2003 | 10:38 AM

muscletruck7379

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rev it up!

how high have you guys revved your 3.0's? I have revved my dads aerostar up to 7 grand!!!

is this normal?

Jul 3, 2003 | 12:28 PM

Ken00

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rev it up!

5500, maybe 6000 is probably the redline.

Jul 3, 2003 | 12:36 PM

3Lstroker

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rev it up!

I would be real careful about doing that, your dad will probably whip your @$$ if you blow it up.

Jul 3, 2003 | 12:47 PM

Rockledge

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rev it up!

Most of the stuff that I've read says redline is 5500-5600 on the 3.0L vulcan. My Taurus' tach has it at 5500.

7000 rpms?

IMO, you're pushin' your luck....

Jul 3, 2003 | 06:39 PM

muscletruck7379

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rev it up!

it wasn't for very long, and its transmission is just junk(junk enough to make the vehicle unroadworthy), so i started it one day, was playing around and hit 7000 rpm while in neutral. but it did have an odd vibration when I got it up that high

Jul 4, 2003 | 01:19 AM

Ottis

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rev it up!

I rev mine up to 5000 or just a tab higher. Any higher and your just not getting any more good power.

Jul 23, 2003 | 11:54 PM

fordeverpower

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rev it up!

I had a 86 sable with the 3.0. It had the factory tach but it lied so i hooked my own. Mine would cut at 5800 in park and in nuetral. And it cut out at 5800 in overdrive on the highway. This happened about six different times. I guess that top speed is 115mph but i don't know why it turned that rpm in overdrive. i beat the crap out of the car. And I had side exhaust out in front of passenger door. It sounded cool so i reved it up many times. No tickets

97 taurus, low revs

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Sep 16, 2005 | 11:47 AM

TallPaul

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Correction. Having matted the pedal a few more times on this thing it appears the 1-2 shift is at 5300, not 5700. Problem is I was reading the tach scale like the 55 mark was 60.

Sep 30, 2005 | 07:03 AM

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RagunCajun

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i rev mine up till the rev limiter kicks in. It kicks it at like 5.6k or something like that. But i gotta shift in nutreal so there's kinda pointless cept i like my flowmaster exaust sound haha.