Normal RPM to rev to on a hot start?
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What should an 8 rev to on a hot start? Did some searching and couldn't find a definitive answer. Just a bunch of threads about hot start problems.
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No. When you first start the car, it revs the engine up before it settles to it's normal idle (around 800 or so on a hot start). My question is what's that RPM that it revs up to before it settles down.
I had a CEL come on after a couple minutes of driving my 8 A LITTLE hard (never pushed the engine above 8k RPM) and I turned the car on and off repeatedly to listen for this compression loss sound because the first time I started it back up after I stalled (forgot to disengage the clutch after spinning out. Go ahead and make fun of me. Nooby mistake, I deserve it lol) it sounded like there was a bit of compression loss. But I started it up less than a second after stalling so I wonder if it just sounded like that because the engine was still spinning as I tried to start it again.
Paranoia got me thinking that my engine wasn't revving as high as it normally does on a hot start, but Kinbote says his revs to about 1500 on a hot start. that's where mine revs to as well so I'm hoping I'm okay. especially because the CEL went away about a half hour later and it hasn't come back (almost a week since it came on) and I haven't heard anything strange while starting up except for that one time I started it after stalling.
It runs great, I'm hoping it was just an ECU glitch from the stalling and then immediately starting the engine. I've been keeping a close eye (and ear!) on how it drives lately to look for anything and nothing out of the ordinary has happened...yet.
I had a CEL come on after a couple minutes of driving my 8 A LITTLE hard (never pushed the engine above 8k RPM) and I turned the car on and off repeatedly to listen for this compression loss sound because the first time I started it back up after I stalled (forgot to disengage the clutch after spinning out. Go ahead and make fun of me. Nooby mistake, I deserve it lol) it sounded like there was a bit of compression loss. But I started it up less than a second after stalling so I wonder if it just sounded like that because the engine was still spinning as I tried to start it again.
Paranoia got me thinking that my engine wasn't revving as high as it normally does on a hot start, but Kinbote says his revs to about 1500 on a hot start. that's where mine revs to as well so I'm hoping I'm okay. especially because the CEL went away about a half hour later and it hasn't come back (almost a week since it came on) and I haven't heard anything strange while starting up except for that one time I started it after stalling.
It runs great, I'm hoping it was just an ECU glitch from the stalling and then immediately starting the engine. I've been keeping a close eye (and ear!) on how it drives lately to look for anything and nothing out of the ordinary has happened...yet.
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