Idling fuel cutoff?

[aighead]

So this may be normal but today was the first day I've noticed it... I pulled into my napping spot in a random parking lot today, and turned the car off, then back on so I can idle without the DRL's on, and the car's temp gauge wasn't as warm as I wanted so I revved it up a little. Blip, blip and something feels weird. BLIIIP! and at around 3000 rpm it doesn't rev any higher. Huh? I pull out of my spot and kind of gun it around the lot and revs go over 3k like normal. I get back in my spot, repeat the power off and on cycle and again bumping off 3k RPM. I assume this is some sort of safety feature I was unaware of? Has it always been like this or do I have some weird problem?

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[DieNasti]

My Accord does the same at 4k. Not sure about the SI (since I don't have one) but it's safe to assume that all SIs do what yours does. Pretty sure any modern car has this safety feature built it. Don't worry.

 

[kalvin126]

Sounds like you've hit the rev limiter. That can be removed with a ECU reprogram like Hondata Ktuner, etc

 

[aighead]

It does feel like a rev limiter just at 3k. I was very surprised that today was the first I'd noticed it.

 

[aighead]

I didn't really want to, just surprised when I couldn't.

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