Last night I had a little drag race and when I was approaching redline in 2nd I thought I heard a beep.......is this normal or am I hearing things? Also my car seems to stutter in 2nd and 3rd when approaching redline.......is this normal? Sorry guys, I'm a newbie with the FD........

Thanks,

David

 

By the way, my question really is regarding if there is some sort of warning sensor that "goes off" near redline, or too much boost or whatever..........

 

Yep. Let's you know, "He dumbass, shift already". I've heard it many a time.

 

as far as i know it the rev limiter

 

The beep comes at 8000, before the rev limiter.

 

yeppers Mine beep at me also.. I call it the roadRunner warning Approching warpSpeed Captain she can't handle much more.

 

The stumble may be the rev limiter and subsequent fuel cut at redline. You hit redline FAST and may have gotten into fuel cut before the shift. I did this when I first got the car and was like what the hell? You must learn to listen to the motor and know when to shift.
Listen for rrrrrRRRRRRR shift rrrrrRRRRRR etc.
If you miss to many times you will get rrrrRRRRPOW!!!!sputter sputter

 

yep it does. rev limit buzzer......I only heard mine once. Scared the crap out of me.

 

When ur car makes beep noise... what trying to tell you is..

"shift dumb *** or ur engine gonna be toast...."

it happened to me once... its all good.. if u see jap rx7 video... they don't shift till driver hear beep noise..

 

The beep is telling you that you should shift. I heard it many times in my FD when I go racing, I wonder if I can make it beep louder, because my car is too loud (inside), with my helmet on and concerntrating on driving I usually can't hear the it.
It is a great little thing that Mazda did to the FD.

 

Yeah first time I heard it I about **** thougth it was my oil or coolant warning then I hit it agian and finally figured out what it was.

 

Thanks to all for the great info.......probably just the first time I heard it........ coulda had to do with the fact that my foot was buried in the carpet trying not to let that American Made Pontiac get the best of me...... you know, adrenaline running high and all....... I knew if I shifted (the Pontiac being automatic trans.) I would lose a few feet.........so I prolly hung on to second gear a tad long.........Oh well, a kill's a kill..........

 

haha. i haven't heard it on my FD yet, i heard it lots of times on my FC, it sounded like a duck

 

FWIW, many people have reported (and I concur) that the fastest times in an FD come from shifting at 7-7.5k and not at 8k.

*edit* Thats for a stock car btw, modded may be different.

 

I use the beep like a shift light. Floor it, hear a beep, shift. My friends FC sounds like his horn is blaring when his car beeps. Plus his car will start to make the noise at like 5500 and he just drives through the beep for over a second before he shifts. The beep is cool, great idea, but I agree that it needs to be a little louder.

 

I have just a few pennies to throw in. The same beep will be heard if your coolant level gets to low. Had this hapen to me when my coolant cap developed a small leak. Probably saved me a motor since I havnt done the linear temp gauge conversion. I would also not suggest listening for the beep in first gear since youll be into fuel cut before you can get to second. Just my .02. ;-)

 

Beep @ 7500 RPM (drive slow to see - in low gears the tach can't keep up)
Redline @ 8000 RPM
Limiter @ 8300 RPM

-Max

 

I believe the rev warning beep comes on at:

7400 rpm + or - 100 rpm (Manual)
6900 rpm + or - 100 rpm (Auto)

According to the owner's manual anyway.

 

If thats the case, you're not revving your FD high enough. Rotaries like high rpms...it keeps them carbon free

 

Oh my gosh Post number 9! you are starting to get your feet wet Did you get the motor home yet?

 

My beep comes at 7000 at my manual FD, my redline to. Mine is an E-spec.

 

I cant believe so many people like to talk about the Beep..My beep is hardwired threw my amps so when i have my radio like turned up. I hear it coming out of my speakers while I listen to the new Busta Rhymes...lol
Its all about the beep....all about that beep!!

 

not when you are breaking them in

 

If only we could wire in a pre-climactic sound. Sort of like a good porno. You would know for sure that she's ready to shift. Actually, I'm not sure that I would ever leave the drivers seat if I had that going.

 

Is it possible to mod the beeping noise to make it louder???