mick1955
SDD Junior Member
I believe the speed limiter is set to 83 or 85 on F450/550's
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Jimmy Tanner
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My 08 F250 stops pulling at 97MPH........but it gets there quick. It is quicker from 60 to 90 than it is from 30 to 60. I wonder just how fast it would run if the limiter was removed and everything else was the same.
fordman60
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on older models with 6.0 (mine is an 05) the limiter could be bypassed by holding the key in the start position. cuts out all but the tach and gives it a kick in the pants for as long as you hold the key!!! the starter will not engage with the truck running. this will set a code saying overspeed condition.
dunno if it works on the 6.4 or not.
with superchip tuner banks intercooler and exhaust, my gps clocked my top speed at 201 km/hr which I belive is roughly 120 mph. (had a race with an Audi i was trying to pass on the highway) i won
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Tail_Gunner
CRJ & ERJ A&P Mech.
Years ago over on TDS, I got into a pissin match with some idiot who was saying that trick would work with a 7.3.
I told him it was stupid to try something like that at 90+ something MPH and he got all "irritated" with me.
I asked him what did he say just before trying that? "Hold my beer and watch this??" He didn't say much after that.
I told him it was stupid to try something like that at 90+ something MPH and he got all "irritated" with me.
I asked him what did he say just before trying that? "Hold my beer and watch this??" He didn't say much after that.
fordman60
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well hey the guy asked how to go faster, not how to do it smartly.
it does work ,and i never said it was smrt smart
however, in a sticky situation where perhaps you pull out to pass and find that when you get beside the semi you are passing there is another one right in front , it will provide you enough of a boost to get by or wreck in spectacular fashion!!!
better to burn out and be remembered than fade away and be immediately forgotten!!!
