i shift at around 3k but every once and a wile i take it up to 6,200 yes i know they dont go that hi well at lest my friends never did (it hit rev at around 6 or so) but i dont have a rev limit and mine is all stock lol just a little broke and dont know how its still running and i get about 7-9 mpg on the street and 12 on the freeway all with the little oh 22re FI it sucks and i know it but my trany is shot first and reverse when it with clutch down the trany will slow you down like you hit the brakes and i dont have 4th yay!!

 

that and swapthing every cop thingy that i went pass was allways 5 mph over its just a thing to get you to slow down thats it and out of 5 cars that i owned i dont think it was the tyres that did it

 

A stock 22RE HP peak is at 4500, torque peaks at 3750. If your truck is stock you probably don't need to rev past 5000 RPM. The nice thing about the 22RE from 4500 to 6000 your HP drops by about 15 horse, but torque falls off and drops below the HP numbers at around 5250. The highest recorded RPM by my computer (Megasquirt) was 7445 on a second gear hard high boost pull, the stock motor didn't seem to mind, but I did blow the pressure side power steering hose.....but I never worry about breaking the engine really, I just consider it's all forged exept pistons and makes less than half the power of my blown/mildly built Mustang that still sports the factory cast crank and I spin it up to 6200, and it's a V8 which way more prone to breaking.

Later

 

Without my ECT mod turned on, I can approach redline pretty easily. With the mod turned on, the engine pings a little from 4300 to 4800 rpm. I can still go to redline with the mod on, but the pinging bothers me. I have tried to adjust that out with the timing with no luck.

I can easily run up to 50mph in 2nd gear though.

 

I do not have any special gearing and just a stock 5spd. The reason i don't go over 4000 rpm is because when i put the clutch in at 4000 rpm it is not very plesant. My speedometer seems to be right, although my transmission is dieing, very loud wine when in any gear and also very loud if i let off the clutch into nutral. I dont know, i am hopeing with a new transmission i will be able to use 1st around town. '

 

when i had me 20r in my first 86 i raced a buick..(whooped him lol)but i pulled along side in 2nd cuz he was slow n wanted 2 pass n he thought i want 2 race.... but i 2nd gear doin 50 and it was a short road but but 60 in 3rd n wasnt even topped out.....city park n speed limit was 15 lol

 

I'd like to hear what the 3.slow guys rev theirs up too.

I have taken mine to 6,200 before - scared myself on that one

 

I never rev either of my trucks over 4000 rpm. They don't seem to make any more power past that so what would be the point.

Robb

 

hmm i have a 22r in my 86, stock tires/4.10's and no tach.

1st gear/15-20~ max, usually shift around 10
2nd/30~ max-shift around 25-30
3rd/40~max - shift aroudn 35-40
4th/65~max, shift into fifth around 55-60/5th always for highway driving.

damn...looking at all your guys numbers, im thinking i may have to go through my engine/tranny and make sure everythings ok...

 

A radar gun will always read slow unless you are running right at it (and I mean exactly right at it - in the middle of the street a block down, not on the shoulder a block down). This is due to the geometry - you're creating a triangle but it's a linear device. The greater the angle the greater the error. One of the reasons a gun is so effective as court evidence - it doesn't tell your exact speed but rather it says that you were doing "at least" a certain speed.

The way to test it is to use milemarkers on the highway. Time yourself at 60mph across a measured mile - do three or 4 and divide by three or four to average out any errors in the post placement. The more consecutive miles the better. It should take you exactly 60 seconds to cover a mile. Less than that your speedo is slow, more than that and your speedo is fast.

 

3000 is generally my max but when i wheel it goes up

 

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that's not a 22re!

 

Hey i been lookin for the last few days on where a 22re idels at.. and i finally found this site and i was like wow! this might actually help me. my yoda has no RPM tack but im fixin to buy 1. i recently blew mine up my rear driveshaft came out while doin 70 down the interstate.. motor over reved and cracked my block. it sucked. but hopefully this weekend im droppin my new 0miles 22re in it ^.^ but from what ive learned over the time that i have had mine. i have 3in bod lift on 31's i wanna go bigger i love muddin in it.. so far its unstopable. it has 4.10 gears and revs like crazy.. but i have it y piped with glasspacks so it could sound louder than the revs are. lol but yall have helped me out on which kinda tack i need for my truck. i hope to learn more from yall! but i would like to kno where i can get a more aggresive cam and what would i have to do to turbo it.. but thank you for readin please inform me!

 

It's very odd that your motor over revved from just loosing the load... There is a built in rev limiter that will cut spark at 6250... so you should never have gone above that... And the 22RE can run for a long time while bouncing off the rev limiter....

4.10's are stock gears, so nothing abnormal there, so with your 31's your actually trurning fewer revs than it was stock... yeah they turn some rev's but it is a 4cyl...

Good luck with the motor swap.

 

no, i read that carring for your toyota (or whatever it was called) book and he suggested a good shift range was 2300 to 3800 rpm's i believe, so i have never gone above 4000.

 

i let mine bounce off the revlimiter all the time!

when i let my lady race it, she sits at the starting line just pinned! seems like forever untill the flag drops lol.

 

I like the rev limiter...it works pretty well

 

Around town I rev my 22R at about 2.5-3k with 28" tires and stock gears, if I'm being harder on it, about 4k, and If I'm racing, or messing around I shift right before the rev limiter kicks in and I powershift..

 

I'm also 2500 - 3000 rpms but 4000ish when trying to keep up with traffic or trying to make it up a hill. Even then I dont like to do it because it just sounds over revved and my clutch cant be liking it that much either.

My speedo also seems to be a bit off according to my GPS by about 3 kms. My truck says 60 GPS says 63...wich is weird because my tires are 235's and stock is 225 - so shouldent my speedo be reading slightly higher then the GPS?

 

Perfectly normal, actually. Contrary to it's name, your speedometer does not measure speed. Rather it measures driveshaft rotational speed. Thus a taller tire will make the truck travel a longer distance and faster for a given driveshaft speed than a smaller tire.