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Old Mar 4, 2008 | 11:46 PM
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Speed governor?

Do our trucks have one? My truck seems to hit a wall at about 100 mph and 2600 rpm. Not that I've tried it or anything...
 
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Old Mar 5, 2008 | 01:05 AM
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There's a speed limiter that defuel's around 94mph. Jody's tunes, and other programmer/tuners get rid of it.
 
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That makes sense- thanks twags6.
 
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If your speedometer goes to 100, once you pass it, the needle drops to 0. I was still accelerating on 80E...
 
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Originally Posted by Trent Fliginger
If your speedometer goes to 100, once you pass it, the needle drops to 0. I was still accelerating on 80E...
There was a thread going on about this a while ago. Apparently it only happens on trucks with the digital odometer, IIRC. Its amazing how steady these trucks are at theses speeds.
 
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Old Mar 5, 2008 | 08:24 PM
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My speedo goes to 100 but it's off a bit due to the tires on there, so I was SWAG'ing on the 100 mph. I agree though- it drove as nice at that speed as at 35!
 
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On my 99.5 the speedo keeps on wrapping around. I think I was around 110mph that time I was running from an IRATE trucker I had accidentally made extremely aggravated. The truck was still winding up, but that was fast enough to get out of sight.
 
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